The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2Harper & Bros., 1838 - Creation |
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... perceive and to de- scribe them . For this purpose he has selected such topics as he thought would most impressively and satisfac- torily display them , and has endeavoured to eluci- date his views by such facts and reasonings as have ...
... perceive and to de- scribe them . For this purpose he has selected such topics as he thought would most impressively and satisfac- torily display them , and has endeavoured to eluci- date his views by such facts and reasonings as have ...
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... perceive it . It is a difficulty which is insepa rable from the subject , but yet ought not to be deemed a sufficient reason for abandoning the investigation altogether . The endeavour may be a personal failure ; but the defects ...
... perceive it . It is a difficulty which is insepa rable from the subject , but yet ought not to be deemed a sufficient reason for abandoning the investigation altogether . The endeavour may be a personal failure ; but the defects ...
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... perceive what a Cimmerian darkness of mind we should have been in on these momentous subjects , and on all the others which they have improved , if they had never been written or circulated . We should have been what the Gothic and ...
... perceive what a Cimmerian darkness of mind we should have been in on these momentous subjects , and on all the others which they have improved , if they had never been written or circulated . We should have been what the Gothic and ...
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... perceive his established and intended superiority . He is the monarch of the earth , although he is not its sole possessor ; and from the natural relation and sympathy which always exist be- tween intellect and intellect in proportion ...
... perceive his established and intended superiority . He is the monarch of the earth , although he is not its sole possessor ; and from the natural relation and sympathy which always exist be- tween intellect and intellect in proportion ...
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... perceive that it has been quite otherwise . A very complicated and diversified plan has been adopted and acted upon through his series of generations ; and the great purpose of these farther Letters will be to attempt , though with ...
... perceive that it has been quite otherwise . A very complicated and diversified plan has been adopted and acted upon through his series of generations ; and the great purpose of these farther Letters will be to attempt , though with ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabian Arabs arise attained beautiful become Bedouins birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Page 176 - What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his...
Page 176 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 219 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 428 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 386 - For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord : and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
Page 160 - Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine...
Page 173 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Page 175 - There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 217 - Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right ; if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Page 174 - STAY near me — do not take thy flight ! A little longer stay in sight ! Much converse do I find in Thee, Historian of my Infancy ! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee : Thou bring'st, gay Creature as thou art ! A solemn image to my heart...