The works of creation illustratedPhiladelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [184-?], 1849 - 264 pages |
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Africa Almighty amongst amusement animal appears beast beautiful behold BINNS AND GOODWIN birds Bittern body bones Buffon Buffon's Natural History Cape Buffalo Cassowary cloth colour consequence consider continually creation creatures curious dark destroyed devour Divine domestic earth eggs elephant existence extraordinary eyes feathers feet fish flesh flowers frequently Frog habits hath head heaven horse Ibid inhabitants insects instinct interesting Jessie's Gleanings Job xxxix kind land length light live Lizard lovely mentions mighty moon Multivalve nest never notice observed ostrich oviparous Passerine Paxton's Illustrations Pectoral fins peculiar PHOLAS DACTYLUS plants possess prey produced quadrupeds render reptile resembling round Salamander says Scripture seen serpents Sharon Turner shell shining singular skin species surface swallows tail tion Toad Travels tree tribe turbed vegetable Viper wasp Water-fowl wherein wherewith wings wonderful young
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Page 128 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 49 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Page 239 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 126 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 19 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years...
Page 239 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee.
Page 20 - There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Page 199 - gainst a post : Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Page 44 - 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 106 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.