Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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... Vegetable Kingdom . STUDY VI . Replies to the Objections against Providence , founded on the Disorders of the Animal 123 225 Kingdom STUDY VII . Replies to the Objections against Providence , founded on the Calamities of the Human Race ...
... Vegetable Kingdom . STUDY VI . Replies to the Objections against Providence , founded on the Disorders of the Animal 123 225 Kingdom STUDY VII . Replies to the Objections against Providence , founded on the Calamities of the Human Race ...
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... manifested in the harmony of vegetables . This Philosopher is Philocles His History is to he found in TELEMACHUS , Books XIII . and XIV . ATLANTIC ATLANTIC HEMISPHERE . PLATE SECOND . Volume I. Page 152 xxvi EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES .
... manifested in the harmony of vegetables . This Philosopher is Philocles His History is to he found in TELEMACHUS , Books XIII . and XIV . ATLANTIC ATLANTIC HEMISPHERE . PLATE SECOND . Volume I. Page 152 xxvi EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES .
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... vegetable History of Nature , the ele- ments of which I have presented in the emigration of plants . From the first of these observations we shall demonstrate , that the Atlantic Current comes in fact from the South , and sets in ...
... vegetable History of Nature , the ele- ments of which I have presented in the emigration of plants . From the first of these observations we shall demonstrate , that the Atlantic Current comes in fact from the South , and sets in ...
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... vegetables of Holland and of the Azores . I am not acquainted with any of the seeds peculiar to the rivers of Jamaica ; but I am absolutely certain that they possess the nautical characters which I have observed in those of all ...
... vegetables of Holland and of the Azores . I am not acquainted with any of the seeds peculiar to the rivers of Jamaica ; but I am absolutely certain that they possess the nautical characters which I have observed in those of all ...
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... vegetable harmonies of Nature founded on the emigration of plants . It may be likewise applied to the emigration of fishes , which pursue such long and winding directions through the open Sea , guided unquestionably by the floating ...
... vegetable harmonies of Nature founded on the emigration of plants . It may be likewise applied to the emigration of fishes , which pursue such long and winding directions through the open Sea , guided unquestionably by the floating ...
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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.