The Universe No Desert, the Earth No Monopoly: Preceded by a Scientific Exposition of the Unity of Plan in Creation, 1-2. ciltlerJ. Munroe & Company, 1855 |
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Sayfa 109 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Sayfa 113 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Sayfa 113 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth ; and it was so.
Sayfa 127 - God who sitteth above, and presides in high authority over all worlds, is mindful of man ; and though at this moment his energy is felt in the remotest provinces of creation, we may feel the same security in his providence as if we were the objects of his undivided care. It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency.
Sayfa 124 - ... littleness at a contemplation so vast and so overpowering. He wonders that he is not overlooked amid the grandeur and the variety which are on every side of him, and passing...
Sayfa 127 - Tha one led me to see a system in every star. The other leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me, that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and of its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity.
Sayfa 128 - The one has suggested to me that, beyond and above all that is visible to man, there may be fields of creation which sweep immeasurably along and carry the impress of the Almighty's hand to the remotest scenes of the universe.
Sayfa 113 - To each of them the heavens present as varied and magnificent a spectacle ; and this earth, the encompassing of which would require the labor of years from one of its puny inhabitants, is but one of the lesser lights which sparkle in their firmament. To them as well as to us, has God divided the light from the darkness, and He has called the light day, and the darkness He has called night.
Sayfa 110 - We feel withdrawn from the earth, and rise in lofty abstraction from this little theatre of human passions and human anxieties. The mind abandons itself to reverie, and is transferred in the ecstasy of its thoughts, to distant and unexplored regions. It sees nature in the simplicity of her great elements, and it sees the God of nature invested with the high attributes of wisdom and majesty.
Sayfa 114 - ... respiration of animals ; of a third, that clouds are formed and suspended over it, which may minister to it all the bloom and luxuriance of vegetation ; and of a fourth, that a white colour spreads over its northern regions, as its winter advances, and that on the approach of summer this whiteness is dissipated— giving room to suppose, that the element of water abounds in it, that it rises by evaporation into its atmosphere, that it freezes upon the application of cold, that it is precipitated...