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... island , not sixty miles square - precious timbers , gums , fruits , what not , enough to give em- ployment and wealth to thousands and tens of thousands , wasting for want of being known and worked - then you would see what a man who ...
... island , not sixty miles square - precious timbers , gums , fruits , what not , enough to give em- ployment and wealth to thousands and tens of thousands , wasting for want of being known and worked - then you would see what a man who ...
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... islands as perfectly as any men are likely to have it on this earth . But what I complain of is , that when men have got the freedom , three out of four of them will not use it . What ? —someone will answer - Do you suppose that I will ...
... islands as perfectly as any men are likely to have it on this earth . But what I complain of is , that when men have got the freedom , three out of four of them will not use it . What ? —someone will answer - Do you suppose that I will ...
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... islands , but in America , on the Continent - in a word , all over the world - such as rank , wealth , fashion , or other artificial arrangements of the world cannot give and cannot take away ; if you want to feel yourself as good as ...
... islands , but in America , on the Continent - in a word , all over the world - such as rank , wealth , fashion , or other artificial arrangements of the world cannot give and cannot take away ; if you want to feel yourself as good as ...
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... islands out of the bottom of the ocean . a sounder and wiser school of geologists now reigns ; the father of whom , in England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see ...
... islands out of the bottom of the ocean . a sounder and wiser school of geologists now reigns ; the father of whom , in England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see ...
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... islands and of the Continent . No water power could . have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect ...
... islands and of the Continent . No water power could . have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect ...
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Página 284 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 318 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 9 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 17 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 323 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página 213 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 253 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Página 283 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 305 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 285 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.