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... Sounds ; Minerals ; Metals , CHAPTER IV . Animals . Wonderful discoveries of extinct Animals , - Page . 21 · 34 45 CHAPTER V. Man . Structure of the human body , 62 CHAPTER VI . Moral System ; its adaptation to the happiness of mankind ...
... Sounds ; Minerals ; Metals , CHAPTER IV . Animals . Wonderful discoveries of extinct Animals , - Page . 21 · 34 45 CHAPTER V. Man . Structure of the human body , 62 CHAPTER VI . Moral System ; its adaptation to the happiness of mankind ...
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... millions of plants and their flowers , and the noxious malaria or pestilential vapors of every fetid marsh . Meteors also are generated in the atmosphere , and often CHAPTER III The Atmosphere; Light; Heat; Sounds; Minerals; Metals, ·
... millions of plants and their flowers , and the noxious malaria or pestilential vapors of every fetid marsh . Meteors also are generated in the atmosphere , and often CHAPTER III The Atmosphere; Light; Heat; Sounds; Minerals; Metals, ·
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... sounds ; and the shorter chords , the higher or more acute tones . The gravest sound is said to be formed by about eighty vibrations in a second ; the most acute sounds , by about a thousand in a se- cond . The acuteness of sounds is ...
... sounds ; and the shorter chords , the higher or more acute tones . The gravest sound is said to be formed by about eighty vibrations in a second ; the most acute sounds , by about a thousand in a se- cond . The acuteness of sounds is ...
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... sounds , or the sounds to the ear , must have been the work of an intelligent and benevolent Author . The laws by which sound is pro- duced , are not fully developed ; but the effect of the proper- ties of sound in harmony , and in the ...
... sounds , or the sounds to the ear , must have been the work of an intelligent and benevolent Author . The laws by which sound is pro- duced , are not fully developed ; but the effect of the proper- ties of sound in harmony , and in the ...
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... weighed three hundred and fifty pounds . It is alledged that fishes kept in a pond , as trout , carp , and tench , may be taught to obey a call , or the sound of a bell , As fishes have no apparent organ of hearing , they ANIMALS . 53.
... weighed three hundred and fifty pounds . It is alledged that fishes kept in a pond , as trout , carp , and tench , may be taught to obey a call , or the sound of a bell , As fishes have no apparent organ of hearing , they ANIMALS . 53.
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Page 132 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 231 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Page 218 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit...
Page 232 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 217 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 27 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 231 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 223 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 27 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 217 - She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table...