Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations1824 |
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... fruit , requires a steady persevering labour . It is true , indeed , that some soils , from a kind of native luxuriance , produce abundantly , with but little out- ward aid ; but , in these as much labour is often re- quired to check an ...
... fruit , requires a steady persevering labour . It is true , indeed , that some soils , from a kind of native luxuriance , produce abundantly , with but little out- ward aid ; but , in these as much labour is often re- quired to check an ...
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... fruit of any tree , how tempting soever it may appear , unless they observe that it is marked with the pecking of birds ; but fall on without any fear or apprehension where the birds . have been before them.t But as what nourishes birds ...
... fruit of any tree , how tempting soever it may appear , unless they observe that it is marked with the pecking of birds ; but fall on without any fear or apprehension where the birds . have been before them.t But as what nourishes birds ...
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... fruits of the earth . They neither sow nor reap . Their comparative riches con- sist in the number of rein - deer . Their chief nourish- ment is derived from the flesh and milk of these ani- mals ; with the milk also they make cheese ...
... fruits of the earth . They neither sow nor reap . Their comparative riches con- sist in the number of rein - deer . Their chief nourish- ment is derived from the flesh and milk of these ani- mals ; with the milk also they make cheese ...
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... fruit . For example , the leaves of the tamarind tree contract round the tender fruit , and protect it from the nocturnal cold . The cassia or senna , the glycine , and many of the papilionaceous plants , contract their leaves in a simi ...
... fruit . For example , the leaves of the tamarind tree contract round the tender fruit , and protect it from the nocturnal cold . The cassia or senna , the glycine , and many of the papilionaceous plants , contract their leaves in a simi ...
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... fruit - a subordinate end , it may appear , yet the basis of every other in the creation . This end they accom- plish to perfection ; and it is scarcely necessary to remark , that it is attained the more completely , as they labour at ...
... fruit - a subordinate end , it may appear , yet the basis of every other in the creation . This end they accom- plish to perfection ; and it is scarcely necessary to remark , that it is attained the more completely , as they labour at ...
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Page 166 - Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent ; Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect, in vile Man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 480 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 481 - Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Page 6 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 548 - Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth.
Page 480 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God, for I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Page 543 - What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" They say unto him, " The son of David." He saith unto them, " How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool ? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
Page 480 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 166 - Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food ? Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand?
Page 194 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.