Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us. To which are Added Essays on Astrology and the Jewish SabbathH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 323 pagini |
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... known be assumed to be coeval with the commencement of life upon the globe , then animals and plants began their existence together . In a similar way the teachings of geology and paleontology as to the nature of the earliest known ...
... known be assumed to be coeval with the commencement of life upon the globe , then animals and plants began their existence together . In a similar way the teachings of geology and paleontology as to the nature of the earliest known ...
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... known be assumed to be coeva the commencement of life upon the globe , then an and plants began their existence together . In a si way the teachings of geology and palæontology as t nature of the earliest known forms of life and as t ...
... known be assumed to be coeva the commencement of life upon the globe , then an and plants began their existence together . In a si way the teachings of geology and palæontology as t nature of the earliest known forms of life and as t ...
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... known facts permit , the probable future of the earth after astronomical eras comparable with those which were presented to us when we consider her past history . One of the chief points in the progression of the earth towards her ...
... known facts permit , the probable future of the earth after astronomical eras comparable with those which were presented to us when we consider her past history . One of the chief points in the progression of the earth towards her ...
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... known to us on earth may truly be said to be derived . What can seem clearer , at a first view , than that the sun is set at the centre of the solar system to supply light and heat to the worlds constituting that system ? So viewing him ...
... known to us on earth may truly be said to be derived . What can seem clearer , at a first view , than that the sun is set at the centre of the solar system to supply light and heat to the worlds constituting that system ? So viewing him ...
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... known , though certainly it is not held in very great favour . For my own part , I used , at one time , to think that Whewell only advanced it in jest ; but now ( perhaps because my own researches and study have led me to regard the ...
... known , though certainly it is not held in very great favour . For my own part , I used , at one time , to think that Whewell only advanced it in jest ; but now ( perhaps because my own researches and study have led me to regard the ...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1876 |
Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1876 |
Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1875 |
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Pagina 264 - Our Place among Infinities : A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Pagina 235 - Army of the North German Confederation. A Brief Description of its Organization, of the Different Branches of the Service and their rdle in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c., &c.
Pagina 192 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, Even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances by deceit?
Pagina 190 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-oflerings and sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you that it may be well with you.
Pagina 189 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Pagina 189 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Pagina 275 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood.
Pagina 243 - COLLINS (Rev. R.), MA Missionary Enterprise in the East. With special reference to the Syrian Christians of Malabar, and the results of modern Missions. With Four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s.
Pagina 256 - BASTIAN, MD, FRS The Brain as an Organ of Mind. Prof. AC RAMSAY, LL.D., FRS Earth Sculpture : Hills, Valleys, Mountains, Plains, Rivers, Lakes ; how they were Produced, and how they have been Destroyed.
Pagina 244 - PROVIDENCE HOUSE. By Mrs. GL Banks. FOR LACK OF GOLD. By Charles Gibbon. ABEL DRAKE'S WIFE. By John Saunders. CORY (Lieu tenant- Colonel Arthur).