Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, 1845-1846--1864-1865, Volume 6James Nisbet & Company, 1850 - Christianity |
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... earth were as hard as sulphur , then the showers would never penetrate it , or they would rush down in torrents , and do no good to the plants that needed them . If our earth , again , were as soft as sugar , you would sink in it after ...
... earth were as hard as sulphur , then the showers would never penetrate it , or they would rush down in torrents , and do no good to the plants that needed them . If our earth , again , were as soft as sugar , you would sink in it after ...
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... earth , she would shine much more dimly , because the angle of the reflection of the sun's rays would be more obtuse . If the moon were larger , she would pull the earth out of her orbit , as the tides are moved by the moon already ...
... earth , she would shine much more dimly , because the angle of the reflection of the sun's rays would be more obtuse . If the moon were larger , she would pull the earth out of her orbit , as the tides are moved by the moon already ...
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... Earth as that they may best minister to our comfort and advantage . This is Art . Nature is the Earth as God left it . Art , in antithesis to Nature , is the Earth as man moulds it and governs it . Lord Bacon defines Art as the " proper ...
... Earth as that they may best minister to our comfort and advantage . This is Art . Nature is the Earth as God left it . Art , in antithesis to Nature , is the Earth as man moulds it and governs it . Lord Bacon defines Art as the " proper ...
Contents
THE AGE WE LIVE IN ITS TENDENCIES AND ITS EXI | 41 |
A REVIVAL OF RELIGION | 161 |
ITS ADVANTAGES AND ITS DANGERS | 243 |
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