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... notice of danger , as the common reed , rattle - snake plant , and parasitic guacco : as specifics - the club - moss , Peruvian bark , palma Christi , quassia , and the ginsing - Construc- tion of forest trees ; beautiful formation of ...
... notice of danger , as the common reed , rattle - snake plant , and parasitic guacco : as specifics - the club - moss , Peruvian bark , palma Christi , quassia , and the ginsing - Construc- tion of forest trees ; beautiful formation of ...
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... notices this fact in his Apology for the Bible . He cites it as a striking instance of the fallacy of geologic theories , which every age produces , and which are suc- cessively overthrown . Had Bishop Watson lived to the present day ...
... notices this fact in his Apology for the Bible . He cites it as a striking instance of the fallacy of geologic theories , which every age produces , and which are suc- cessively overthrown . Had Bishop Watson lived to the present day ...
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... notice , how well the little animal is provided with teeth for nibbling off the berries . If the teeth were flat , or hook - shaped , as fre- quently occurs , the berries would in vain offer a PLANTS PECULIAR TO AFRICA . 21.
... notice , how well the little animal is provided with teeth for nibbling off the berries . If the teeth were flat , or hook - shaped , as fre- quently occurs , the berries would in vain offer a PLANTS PECULIAR TO AFRICA . 21.
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... notice some , that tend espe- cially to the comfort of civilised life . The Cow Tree has recently been discovered in one of the most unfruitful regions of South America , in a coun- try but little calculated for the pasturage of cattle ...
... notice some , that tend espe- cially to the comfort of civilised life . The Cow Tree has recently been discovered in one of the most unfruitful regions of South America , in a coun- try but little calculated for the pasturage of cattle ...
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... notice , that the profits arising from a range of bee - hives , often pay the rent of an indus- trious cottager ; and that wax is used for many important purposes . The phoenix would supersede the bee ; for honey is procured from its ...
... notice , that the profits arising from a range of bee - hives , often pay the rent of an indus- trious cottager ; and that wax is used for many important purposes . The phoenix would supersede the bee ; for honey is procured from its ...
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Página 215 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Página 112 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 226 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Página 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Página 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Página 46 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Página 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Página 194 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 61 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Página 218 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.