Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural History, Elementary Science, Accounts of Remarkable Persons, Places [etc.]: With a Selection of Passages from the British Poets [etc.]Oliver & Boyd, 1843 |
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... centre of its system , wheeling its pla- nets in times proportioned to their distances , and at once dispensing light , heat , and action . The earth , also , is seen with its twofold motion , producing by the one the change of seasons ...
... centre of its system , wheeling its pla- nets in times proportioned to their distances , and at once dispensing light , heat , and action . The earth , also , is seen with its twofold motion , producing by the one the change of seasons ...
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... centre ; and the males , forming a ring round them , oppose their horns to the assailants . - Some ani mals , that feed upon fruits , which are to be found only at one time of the year , fill their holes with seve- ral sorts of plants ...
... centre ; and the males , forming a ring round them , oppose their horns to the assailants . - Some ani mals , that feed upon fruits , which are to be found only at one time of the year , fill their holes with seve- ral sorts of plants ...
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... centre , the threads being remote from each other . These last are with greater propriety termed nets , and the insects , which form them , pro- ceeding on geometrical principles , may be called geome- tricians ; while the former can ...
... centre , the threads being remote from each other . These last are with greater propriety termed nets , and the insects , which form them , pro- ceeding on geometrical principles , may be called geome- tricians ; while the former can ...
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... centre . Ac- cordingly , the construction of these exterior lines is the spider's first operation . She seems careless about the shape of the area which they enclose , well aware that she can as readily inscribe a circle in a triangle ...
... centre . Ac- cordingly , the construction of these exterior lines is the spider's first operation . She seems careless about the shape of the area which they enclose , well aware that she can as readily inscribe a circle in a triangle ...
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... centre of her net , she fixes a second , which , in like manner , she conveys and fastens to another part of the lines encircling the area . Her work now proceeds ra- pidly . During the preliminary operations she some- times rests . But ...
... centre of her net , she fixes a second , which , in like manner , she conveys and fastens to another part of the lines encircling the area . Her work now proceeds ra- pidly . During the preliminary operations she some- times rests . But ...
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Page 233 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 233 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 230 - And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Page 282 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 324 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore The dead which they contained before ; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him...
Page 282 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 324 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 296 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...
Page 234 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 231 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.