On the science of sensibility, intelligence, or simple element of soul; and the spirit of life and origin of species [&c.]. |
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Page 91 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 156 - Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent Did you admire my lamp...
Page 92 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of •waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 9 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Page 159 - ... turn in the muscles or twist in the fibres of any one which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture of them would have been.
Page 85 - But of that day and that hour, knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Page 8 - God shall judge the righteous and the wicked : for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Page 161 - ... return before they have time to cool, and become incapable of producing an animal ! In the summer you see her giving herself greater freedoms, and quitting her care for above two hours together ; but in winter, when the...
Page 59 - God formed man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and he became a living soul.
Page 160 - When she has laid her eggs in such a manner that she can cover them, what care docs she take in turning them frequently, that all parts may partake of the vital warmth? When she leaves them to provide for her necessary sustenance, how punctually does she return before they have time to cool, and become incapable of producing an animal?