Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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... objects of these Studies ; for scarcely have I met , in my progress through life , any but men sold to the systems which have led to fortune , or to those which promise it . Accord- ingly , the more I was in the right , being alone ...
... objects of these Studies ; for scarcely have I met , in my progress through life , any but men sold to the systems which have led to fortune , or to those which promise it . Accord- ingly , the more I was in the right , being alone ...
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... objects of these Studies , one of them has advanced , as I am told , that I had bor- rowed my Theory of the Tides by means of the polar ices , from certain Latin Authors . This Theory is at last , it seems , gaining proselytes , since ...
... objects of these Studies , one of them has advanced , as I am told , that I had bor- rowed my Theory of the Tides by means of the polar ices , from certain Latin Authors . This Theory is at last , it seems , gaining proselytes , since ...
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... objects of political and moral reform ; the one , because it was not permitted me to treat them as my conscience would have directed ; and the other , because my plan could not comprehend them . I have restricted myself merely to abuses ...
... objects of political and moral reform ; the one , because it was not permitted me to treat them as my conscience would have directed ; and the other , because my plan could not comprehend them . I have restricted myself merely to abuses ...
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... object is the happiness of Mankind . If on the other hand I have attained the glory of communicating to you some new pleasures , and of extending your views into the unbounded and mysterious field of Nature , reflect that after all ...
... object is the happiness of Mankind . If on the other hand I have attained the glory of communicating to you some new pleasures , and of extending your views into the unbounded and mysterious field of Nature , reflect that after all ...
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... object deliver up their own subjects ; the unnaturally degraded charac- ter of their subjects , who , after their example , frequently drag to these in- human markets their wives and their children ; the depopulation of most of the ...
... object deliver up their own subjects ; the unnaturally degraded charac- ter of their subjects , who , after their example , frequently drag to these in- human markets their wives and their children ; the depopulation of most of 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.