Nature Displayed: Designed to Excite the Youthful Mind to Piety and Virtue ...Joseph Blundell, 1828 - 180 páginas |
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Página 44
... , it refreshes the withering plants , it cools the air in summer , it supplies our springs and fountains , and forms our rivers , so that we are never in want of water . Son . What a constant round the element of water 44.
... , it refreshes the withering plants , it cools the air in summer , it supplies our springs and fountains , and forms our rivers , so that we are never in want of water . Son . What a constant round the element of water 44.
Página 45
... supply springs , which springs flow in little streams into the valleys , and then uniting become rivers , which in return feed the ocean . Son . And all the time the water is offering itself to the wants of the habitable globe ? Father ...
... supply springs , which springs flow in little streams into the valleys , and then uniting become rivers , which in return feed the ocean . Son . And all the time the water is offering itself to the wants of the habitable globe ? Father ...
Página 89
... supplies the body with nourishment , you can perhaps tell me how the food which we take becomes changed into blood ? Father . When the food has descended into the stomach , it there meets with a certain li- quor called the gastric juice ...
... supplies the body with nourishment , you can perhaps tell me how the food which we take becomes changed into blood ? Father . When the food has descended into the stomach , it there meets with a certain li- quor called the gastric juice ...
Página 98
... and the snow , which supply the springs with water . Mountains are the grand magazines of metals , minerals , marble , stone , & c . and beside attracting the clouds , they 99 shelter the lowlands and vallies from the bleak and 98.
... and the snow , which supply the springs with water . Mountains are the grand magazines of metals , minerals , marble , stone , & c . and beside attracting the clouds , they 99 shelter the lowlands and vallies from the bleak and 98.
Página 104
... shalt thou come , but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves . be staid . " Son . What an immense quantity of vapour must be raised out of the sea to supply the springs , which form so many great rivers in every 104.
... shalt thou come , but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves . be staid . " Son . What an immense quantity of vapour must be raised out of the sea to supply the springs , which form so many great rivers in every 104.
Términos y frases comunes
adapted admiration Almighty animalcules animals beasts beautiful birds blood body bones called chyle chyme clouds cold colour Creator curious dark dear boy DIALOGUE distance divine divine Providence earth fall Father feet firmament fish fixed stars flax flowers flowery fields frost fruit gastric juice give globe grain grand magazine guard gullet habitation heat heavens hemp hoar frost infinite inhabitants injury insects instinct iron kind of food labour light live means mentioned moon motion mouth move nature necessary neral night nourishment noxious observe organ peculiar plants pleasure pole star preserve prey produce proper Providence quadrupeds rain rays reason refresh round the sun seeds sense serve sight skin smell sounds spiders spring stomach stone substance supply suppose surface teeth ther things thou tion trees ture vapours wants whilst whole wind wings winter wisdom wise wonderful
Pasajes populares
Página 129 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Página 94 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 50 - Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Página 134 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Página 100 - O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not : fear ye not me ? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it ; and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail ; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Página 109 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Página 123 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Página 111 - Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, And make her nest on high ? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, Upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, And her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood : And where the slain are, there is she.
Página 130 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 96 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.