The Lesser and the Greater Light ...Bell and Daldy, 1869 - 69 páginas |
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The Lesser and the Greater Light (Classic Reprint) John Louis Petit Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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abiding ancient animæ atque aught awaken'd baffle Bethany boundless calm cause chain cloud creation Creator danger dare dark dead death Deity depths divine doubt dread dwell E'en earth earthly Epicurean Epicurus error eternal existence fables faith fear Freedom of Thought gaze geologist glory God's Godhead gods grasp hand hath heart heav'nly heaven heaven-born Homer hope HUGH MILLER igitur Iliad immortal intellect Israel's judgment life's light living Lucretius Man's matter mercy mercy's mind mortal mould mysterious nature Nature's nihil o'er o'erwhelming Old Red Sandstone omni OVID Pagan passage perfect Plato pow'rs proffer'd pure Pythagorean Quis reason Religio Laici renew'd reveal'd revelation rock scann'd scatter'd scene Scripture seed seed of death sense soul sphere spirit stamp'd STANFORD UNIVERSITY stern strife struggle sway thought throne tide toils trace truth Twas vast Whate'er wild wisdom plann'd wondrous word wrath zeal
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Página 40 - 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.
Página 5 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Página 32 - If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? Or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thine hand? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; And thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Página 48 - At this period of our history, some terrible catastrophe involved in sudden destruction the fish of an area at least a hundred miles from boundary to boundary, perhaps much more. The same platform in Orkney as at Cromarty is strewed thick with remains, which exhibit unequivocally the marks of violent death. The figures are contorted, contracted, curved; he tail in many instances is bent round to the head; the spines stick out; the fins are spread to the full, as in fish that die in convulsions.
Página 45 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Página 47 - The river Bullhead, when attacked by an enemy, or immediately as it feels the hook in its jaws, erects its two spines at nearly right angles with the plates of the head, as if to render itself as difficult of being swallowed as possible.
Página 62 - And though no name be for salvation known, But that of his eternal Son alone ; Who knows how far transcending goodness can Extend the merits of that Son to man ? Who knows what reasons may his mercy lead, Or ignorance invincible may plead ? Not only charity bids hope the best, But more the great Apostle has...
Página 24 - But stories like the chaining of Hera by her son, and the flinging of Hephaestus out of heaven for trying to take his mother's part when his father was beating her, and all those battles of the gods which are to be found in Homer, must be refused admittance into our state, whether they be allegorical or not.
Página 51 - And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Página 48 - ... in fish that die in convulsions. The Pterichthys shows its arms extended at their stiffest angle, as if prepared for an enemy. The attitudes of all the ichthyolites on this platform are attitudes of fear, anger, and pain. The remains, too, appear to have suffered nothing from the after attacks of predaceous fishes : none such seem to have survived. The record is one of destruction at once widely spread, and total so far as it extended.