Life-history of Our PlanetE. Worthington, 1876 - 368 pages |
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America Ammonite animal Apes appears Archæan Asia atom Australian become Bird body bones bowlders brain branches bronze called carbon Carboniferous carnivorous cave clay copper coral creation Cretaceous Crinoids crust Devonian earth Elephant embryo Eocene Fish foot fossil glace glacial glacier globe Glyptodon Gorilla granite gravel growth head heat human hundred feet Hydroid Indian Islands Jurassic lake Lancelet land lava ledges limbs lime limestone living lower Mammals marsh Marsupials Megalosaurus mer de glace mesozoic miles mind molecules Mollusks Mound-builder mounds Mountains mouth nature Neolithic ocean organ pass period Polyp primeval race record reefs represented Reptile Rhizopod Rhone Glacier ridges river rocks Ruminant sand Saurians sediment segment septa Shark shell shores shown Silurian skull snow species spine stalagmite stone strata structure surface teeth thick thousand feet tion Triassic tribe Valley vertebrate
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Page 205 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 318 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 146 - The grassy clods now calved ; now half appear'd The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts ; then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 318 - That friend of mine who lives in God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 210 - And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
Page 87 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 75 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 318 - I see another law in my members, warring against the Law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. O wretched man that I am ! who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? I thank GOD through JESUS CHRIST : Because, where Sin abounded, Grace much more abounded.
Page 318 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge ; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Page 314 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.