Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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... likewise to translate ; aiming with him at enlarging the stock of human knowledge , virtue and happiness , and at gradually di minishing the sum of human wo . HOXTON , Feb. 21 , 1799 . HENRY HUNTER . CONTENT S. VOL . I. A DVERTISEMENT ...
... likewise to translate ; aiming with him at enlarging the stock of human knowledge , virtue and happiness , and at gradually di minishing the sum of human wo . HOXTON , Feb. 21 , 1799 . HENRY HUNTER . CONTENT S. VOL . I. A DVERTISEMENT ...
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... likewise , to have been relished by strangers ; for , within these six months , pi- rated impressions of it have appeared at Geneva and Avignon ; and this literary plunder might have injured me , had not M. Laurent de Ville- deuil ...
... likewise , to have been relished by strangers ; for , within these six months , pi- rated impressions of it have appeared at Geneva and Avignon ; and this literary plunder might have injured me , had not M. Laurent de Ville- deuil ...
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... and western Hemisphere of the Pole , their lateral counter - currents , that is , their Tides , have likewise a similar intermittent flux . the first who demonstrated it . Other Europeans , prior xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
... and western Hemisphere of the Pole , their lateral counter - currents , that is , their Tides , have likewise a similar intermittent flux . the first who demonstrated it . Other Europeans , prior xviii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... likewise have dilated on the harshness of our pretended Fathers of families , who abandon their servants on the first attack of sickness , or the approach of old age , or when they become parents ; on the obligations under which they ...
... likewise have dilated on the harshness of our pretended Fathers of families , who abandon their servants on the first attack of sickness , or the approach of old age , or when they become parents ; on the obligations under which they ...
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... likewise , every thing else being " equal , somewhat greater in Winter than in Summer , " In the practice of navigation that difference may be en- tirely neglected , and perpetual recurrence may be had " to the small table placed on the ...
... likewise , every thing else being " equal , somewhat greater in Winter than in Summer , " In the practice of navigation that difference may be en- tirely neglected , and perpetual recurrence may be had " to the small table placed on the ...
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Page 45 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 161 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 168 - When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 168 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 169 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and they stand as a garment.
Page 169 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Page 169 - Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth ? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 124 - The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; Even the waters forgotten of the foot; They are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Page 168 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 161 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.