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Page iii
... plants which I had indicated , and of which he had recognised the extistence in Nature . Personages of real importance , and others who wished to pass for such , have endeavoured to al lure me to them , by holding out gilded prospects ...
... plants which I had indicated , and of which he had recognised the extistence in Nature . Personages of real importance , and others who wished to pass for such , have endeavoured to al lure me to them , by holding out gilded prospects ...
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... plants , because , say they , it's heat does not make the fluid to ascend in the thermo- meter . I do not know , in fact , whether it does , or does not act , on spirit of Wine : but what conclusion can be deduced from this ? The ...
... plants , because , say they , it's heat does not make the fluid to ascend in the thermo- meter . I do not know , in fact , whether it does , or does not act , on spirit of Wine : but what conclusion can be deduced from this ? The ...
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... plants . From the first of these observations we shall demonstrate , that the Atlantic Current comes in fact from the South , and sets in northward , as Navigators believe , but this only during our Winter . It is accordingly produced ...
... plants . From the first of these observations we shall demonstrate , that the Atlantic Current comes in fact from the South , and sets in northward , as Navigators believe , but this only during our Winter . It is accordingly produced ...
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... plants which grow in Jamaica and the adjacent " islands ; such as those of the dolichos urens , guilandina " bonduc , bonducetta , the mimosa scandens of LINNEUS . These seeds , which are called Molucca beans , grow on " the banks of ...
... plants which grow in Jamaica and the adjacent " islands ; such as those of the dolichos urens , guilandina " bonduc , bonducetta , the mimosa scandens of LINNEUS . These seeds , which are called Molucca beans , grow on " the banks of ...
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... of Jamaica ; but I am absolutely certain that they possess the nautical characters which I have observed in those of all fluviatic fluviatic plants . Here then is a new confirmation of EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES . Ivii.
... of Jamaica ; but I am absolutely certain that they possess the nautical characters which I have observed in those of all fluviatic fluviatic plants . Here then is a new confirmation of EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES . Ivii.
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Page 176 - 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 171 - 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 177 - 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 177 - 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 53 - 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 177 - 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 228 - ... fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
Page 176 - 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 56 - ... rapid wing, collects a similar tribute from the refuse of the grove ; and the frugal bee turns to account even the small dust on the flower, There is no corner of the earth where the whole vegetable crop may not be reaped. Those plants which are rejected by one are a delicacy to another, and, even among the finny tribes, contribute to their fatness. The hog devours the horse-tail and henbane ; the goat, the thistle, and . the hemlock. All return in the evening to the habitation of man, with murmurs,...
Page 228 - Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen, know him that is : neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster...