Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustratring the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Band 1

Henry Duncan

Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1839

Inhalt

• INTRODUCTION by the American Editor: 1
• The Character impressed on NatureCompensation: 7
• Globular Figure of the Earth: 16
• SUNDAY General Aspect of Winter: 30
• Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights: 36
• Variety of Climates: 44
• Adaptation of Organized Existences to Seasons: 52
• Adaptation of Organized Existences to the Tropical: 59
• The Balance Preserved in the Animal and Vegetable: 66
• Alternation of Day and Night: 72
• Night Dreamings World a State of Discipline: 79
• General Remarks: 89
• The Planetary System: 96
• Motions of the Planets: 102
• SUNDAY Divine and Human Knowledge com: 110
• Relative Proportions of the Planetary System: 117
• Immensity of the Universe: 123
• Binary Stars: 131
• Wonders of the Microscope Infusory Animal: 139
• Adjustment of the Constitution of Plants to the: 146
• Physiological Condition of Plants continued: 154
• SUNDAY On Seeing God in his Works: 162
• Eggs: 170
• Various States: 176
• The Snail: 188
• Animalcules in Paste: 195
• Birds: 200
• Birds which partially migrate: 209
• CHRISTMASDAY: 219
• SUNDAY Proofs of Divine Benevolence in: 227
• Cetaceous Animals: 235
• Migration of Eels: 244
• Migration of the LandCrab: 253
• HYBERNATION OF QUADRUPEDS: 262
• Torpidity: 272
• Provisions for his Comfort: 281
• SUNDAY The Unceasing and Universal Provi: 289
• Food and Clothing: 297
• Provision for causing Ice to Float on the Surface: 304
• Amusements connected with it: 310
• Effects of Frost in the Northern Regions: 319
• Hoar Frost Foliations on WindowGlass c: 325
• Sagacity and Fidelity of the Dog in Snow: 334
• GEOLOGY: 341
• Successive Periods of Deposit: 349
• Successive Periods of Organized Existences: 358
• Indications of the Action of the Deluge at the: 366
• Effects of the Deluge on the Present Surface of: 374

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 252 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

Seite 365 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons

Seite 378 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...

Seite 235 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Seite 364 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Seite 57 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and...

Seite 366 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Seite 325 - He will come and will not tarry, 'be diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Seite 366 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Seite 379 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or, mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem. As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span • Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustratring the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Band 1; Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustratring the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Francis William Pitt Greenwood; Bände 7-10 von School library
• Autor/in: Henry Duncan
• Herausgeber: Francis William Pitt Greenwood
• Verlag: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1839
• Original von: University of California
• Digitalisiert: 25. Jan. 2008