Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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... sometimes ridiculous and disgusting . His pro- phetic Visions are not inspiration from Heaven . The character and conduct of his Countrymen but ill ac- cord with his fond wishes and too partial prognostics . Happy had it been for them ...
... sometimes ridiculous and disgusting . His pro- phetic Visions are not inspiration from Heaven . The character and conduct of his Countrymen but ill ac- cord with his fond wishes and too partial prognostics . Happy had it been for them ...
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... sometimes die of hunger in the Winter . But as , on the one hand , these animals are multiplied without end , all around Paris ; and as , on the other , we mow down every thing , even to a blade of grass , it necessarily must , sometimes ...
... sometimes die of hunger in the Winter . But as , on the one hand , these animals are multiplied without end , all around Paris ; and as , on the other , we mow down every thing , even to a blade of grass , it necessarily must , sometimes ...
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... sometimes by three weeks or more ; after " that it changes no more till the monsoon is fixed in the " opposite direction . For example , the western monsoon " commences about the middle of April , but the Current " does not change till ...
... sometimes by three weeks or more ; after " that it changes no more till the monsoon is fixed in the " opposite direction . For example , the western monsoon " commences about the middle of April , but the Current " does not change till ...
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... sometimes happens to the turtles of " America , which are caught alive on these coasts ; and " this is put beyond the reach of doubt , since there was " found on the coast of Scotland part of the mast of the " Tilbury man of war , which ...
... sometimes happens to the turtles of " America , which are caught alive on these coasts ; and " this is put beyond the reach of doubt , since there was " found on the coast of Scotland part of the mast of the " Tilbury man of war , which ...
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... sometimes accidentally crushed by the feet of those animals , col- lects her young , with anxious inquietude , at the sight of the hawk , a feathered animal like herself , who appears in the air but as a black point , and whom , perhaps ...
... sometimes accidentally crushed by the feet of those animals , col- lects her young , with anxious inquietude , at the sight of the hawk , a feathered animal like herself , who appears in the air but as a black point , and whom , perhaps ...
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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.