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... hundred on these splintered summits , which blaze now as they blazed centuries ago , and diminish not ! The view from this remarkable group of mountains - the most remarkable by far in the island - differs much from any other with which ...
... hundred on these splintered summits , which blaze now as they blazed centuries ago , and diminish not ! The view from this remarkable group of mountains - the most remarkable by far in the island - differs much from any other with which ...
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... hundred lateral glens , with their ibutary streams , and all their tarn - head or loch , debouch upon he three principal straths , whereby their deepest solitudes are eached , and the very foundations of their loftiest peaks bared and ...
... hundred lateral glens , with their ibutary streams , and all their tarn - head or loch , debouch upon he three principal straths , whereby their deepest solitudes are eached , and the very foundations of their loftiest peaks bared and ...
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... hundred and fifty distinct species . But , beside these , there have been discovered in the silurian rocks six or seven genera , involving a still greater number of spe- cies , of fishes of the order of the Placoids , so denominated ...
... hundred and fifty distinct species . But , beside these , there have been discovered in the silurian rocks six or seven genera , involving a still greater number of spe- cies , of fishes of the order of the Placoids , so denominated ...
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... hundred miles , and training round the western coast by Oban , the shores of Mull and Morven . They are of great thickness in many places ; and in some of the beds , as at Cromarty , Lethen- bar , and Gamrie , contain nearly all the ...
... hundred miles , and training round the western coast by Oban , the shores of Mull and Morven . They are of great thickness in many places ; and in some of the beds , as at Cromarty , Lethen- bar , and Gamrie , contain nearly all the ...
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... hundreds of these lie entire , where no part of the body has left the trace of an impression . M. Agassiz assigns , as the reason of this , the great difference that exists in the structure of these two parts , and es- pecially in the ...
... hundreds of these lie entire , where no part of the body has left the trace of an impression . M. Agassiz assigns , as the reason of this , the great difference that exists in the structure of these two parts , and es- pecially in the ...
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Sida 121 - And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar...
Sida 86 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Sida 228 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Sida 89 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Sida 93 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
Sida 315 - Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines...
Sida 352 - 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.
Sida 357 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Sida 156 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Sida 86 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.