The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 502 pages |
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... HAND TO POSSESS SUCH POWERS OF DESCRIP- TION AS THIS MAN . IV . MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS ; OR , THE STORY OF MY EDUCATION . AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY . With a full length Portrait of the Author . 12mo , cloth . Price $ 1.25 . This is a ...
... HAND TO POSSESS SUCH POWERS OF DESCRIP- TION AS THIS MAN . IV . MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS ; OR , THE STORY OF MY EDUCATION . AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY . With a full length Portrait of the Author . 12mo , cloth . Price $ 1.25 . This is a ...
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... hand - his form erect , and his eye bright and piercing . The biography of such a man will interest every reader . It is a living thing - teaching a lesson of self - culture of immense value . " — PHILA- DELPHIA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER ...
... hand - his form erect , and his eye bright and piercing . The biography of such a man will interest every reader . It is a living thing - teaching a lesson of self - culture of immense value . " — PHILA- DELPHIA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER ...
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... hand , on the night of December 23d , 1856. The cause was over much brain - work . He had been long and incessantly engaged in preparing the present work for the press , when , just as he had given the last touches to the eloquent , the ...
... hand , on the night of December 23d , 1856. The cause was over much brain - work . He had been long and incessantly engaged in preparing the present work for the press , when , just as he had given the last touches to the eloquent , the ...
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... hands of many of our readers ; and while they peruse it with the saddened impression that his intellect and genius poured out their latest treasures in its composition , they will search through it in vain for the slightest evidence of ...
... hands of many of our readers ; and while they peruse it with the saddened impression that his intellect and genius poured out their latest treasures in its composition , they will search through it in vain for the slightest evidence of ...
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... hand . A week or so ago , a new and more aggravated feature of cerebral disorder showed itself in sudden and ... hands , penning that brief notice of it which will be read with * The Prayer will be found at the end of these Memorials ...
... hand . A week or so ago , a new and more aggravated feature of cerebral disorder showed itself in sudden and ... hands , penning that brief notice of it which will be read with * The Prayer will be found at the end of these Memorials ...
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Page 229 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 268 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 233 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 37 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 262 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 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 138 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 261 - The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass.
Page 138 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
Page 139 - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Page 263 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...