On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History Habits and Instincts, Volumen1W. Pickering, 1835 |
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... terrestrial tribes with those produced from the waters . In the majority of these , the fins of the fishes and cetaceans , and the wings of the birds , were replaced by legs best fitted for motion on the theatre on which they were to ...
... terrestrial tribes with those produced from the waters . In the majority of these , the fins of the fishes and cetaceans , and the wings of the birds , were replaced by legs best fitted for motion on the theatre on which they were to ...
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... terrestrial globe . The vast distance , on this account , intervening between man and the highest animals in the scale of being , appears evident from the different cir- cumstances attending their creation . When they were brought into ...
... terrestrial globe . The vast distance , on this account , intervening between man and the highest animals in the scale of being , appears evident from the different cir- cumstances attending their creation . When they were brought into ...
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... terrestrial animals would , in numberless cases , float upon the surface , and be deposited in countries far distant from those which they inhabited , while those that were aquatic , being in their native element , must have owed their ...
... terrestrial animals would , in numberless cases , float upon the surface , and be deposited in countries far distant from those which they inhabited , while those that were aquatic , being in their native element , must have owed their ...
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... terrestrial Mammalia , on the contrary , confine themselves to intratropical regions , where the luxuriance of vegetation best corresponds with their enormous consumption of food . Amongst the birds the Vulture , though one species ...
... terrestrial Mammalia , on the contrary , confine themselves to intratropical regions , where the luxuriance of vegetation best corresponds with their enormous consumption of food . Amongst the birds the Vulture , though one species ...
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... terrestrial excursions ; but Dr. Virey ob- serves that it is for the sake of small Crustaceans , on which they feed . I shall name only one more animal that migrates for the great purpose of reproduction , and this is not the least ...
... terrestrial excursions ; but Dr. Virey ob- serves that it is for the sake of small Crustaceans , on which they feed . I shall name only one more animal that migrates for the great purpose of reproduction , and this is not the least ...
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action ALEXANDER DYCE alluded Almighty amongst animal kingdom animalcules appears Aristotle belonging birds bivalve body byssus called cause Cephalopods cherubim circumstances climate cloud colour common consider creation Creator crown 8vo Crustaceans Cuvier Deity deluge derived direction Divine earth Echinoderms edition evidently exhibit eyes fishes fixed fluid foot furnished genus globe habits head heavens herbivorous Heteropods Holy Ibid infinite Infusories inhabit insects instinct Irenæus JOHN MITFORD kind Lamarck latter legs Linné Lord maxillæ means migrations Molluscans motion mountains mouth multivalve nature nutriment object observed ocean operculum organs orifice physical plants PLATE POEMS polypes powers prey probably produced quadrupeds race regard rendered resembling respect rocks Salpes says Scripture seems shell shell-fish singular species spines Spirit station substance suckers surface tentacles terrestrial terrestrial animals things tion tribe univalves valves various vegetable whole WILLIAM PICKERING word worms Zoophytes
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Página 142 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Página ci - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 72 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 72 - And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven : and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons
Página lxxvii - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Página cviii - For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth: (For righteousness is immortal:) But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them...
Página lxxxv - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 43 - And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.
Página lix - For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us...
Página cviii - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :