On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History Habits and Instincts, Volumen1William Pickering, 1835 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 27
Página xxxviii
... remains a nonentity ; therefore , as de- fined by our author , she is nothing , and can do nothing . But although nature , as defined by La- marck , consists merely of abstract qualities , independent of any essence or being , and ...
... remains a nonentity ; therefore , as de- fined by our author , she is nothing , and can do nothing . But although nature , as defined by La- marck , consists merely of abstract qualities , independent of any essence or being , and ...
Página 17
... remains of plants and animals embedded in the strata of this and other northern countries , that the climate must formerly have been warmer than it now is.1 Some change or changes of this kind therefore would sooner or later produce the ...
... remains of plants and animals embedded in the strata of this and other northern countries , that the climate must formerly have been warmer than it now is.1 Some change or changes of this kind therefore would sooner or later produce the ...
Página 18
... remains , if any , of tropical birds have hitherto been discovered in cold countries , while such numbers of the quadru- peds of warm climates , both viviparous and ovi- parous , are met with every day in a fossil state . Now the birds ...
... remains , if any , of tropical birds have hitherto been discovered in cold countries , while such numbers of the quadru- peds of warm climates , both viviparous and ovi- parous , are met with every day in a fossil state . Now the birds ...
Página 22
... remains . When the Almighty formed our globe from the original chaos , and projecting it into space bade it perform its diurnal and annual revolu- tions , he first weighed it in his balance , and moulded it so as it might answer to the ...
... remains . When the Almighty formed our globe from the original chaos , and projecting it into space bade it perform its diurnal and annual revolu- tions , he first weighed it in his balance , and moulded it so as it might answer to the ...
Página 35
... remains have occasioned so much astonish- ment , appear to have puzzled in some measure the most acute geologists , and have given birth to an hypothesis I shall hereafter notice . Sir H. Davy , in his last singular work , thus ...
... remains have occasioned so much astonish- ment , appear to have puzzled in some measure the most acute geologists , and have given birth to an hypothesis I shall hereafter notice . Sir H. Davy , in his last singular work , thus ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
action alluded Almighty amongst animal kingdom animalcules appears aquatic Aristotle belonging birds bivalve body byssus called cause Cephalopods cherubim circumstances climate cloud common consider creation Creator Crustaceans Cuvier Deity deluge derived direction divided Divine earth Echinoderms employed evidently exhibit eyes fishes fixed fluid foot furnished Gastropods genus globe habits head heavens herbivorous Heteropods Holy Ibid infinite Infusories inhabit insects instinct Irenæus kind Lamarck latter legs Linné Lord maxillæ means migrations Molluscans motion mountains mouth multivalve nature nutriment object observed ocean operculum organs orifice passage physical plants PLATE polypes powers prey probably proboscis produced quadrupeds race regard rendered resembling respect rocks Salpes says Scripture Sea-Pen seems shell shell-fish singular sometimes species spines Spirit station substance suckers surface symbols tentacles terrestrial terrestrial animals things tion tribe tube univalves valves various vast vegetable whole word worms Zoophytes
Pasajes populares
Página 88 - Kings of armies did flee apace : and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
Página 391 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Página 76 - 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 lxi - 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 lxxxix - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 47 - 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 xcvii - And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices ; and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God : and before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Página 380 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página lxxxiv - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust And lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, To set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory, For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, And he hath set the world upon them.
Página xc - So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.