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... nature , with religious improvements . By Cotton Mather , D. D. F. R. S. The style made easy and familiar . " In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States , entitled , " an act for the encour- agement of learning , by ...
... nature , with religious improvements . By Cotton Mather , D. D. F. R. S. The style made easy and familiar . " In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States , entitled , " an act for the encour- agement of learning , by ...
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A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. within me would have led me to it , if Pliny , who is one of them , had not given me a rule ; " It is ingenuous to confess our benefactors . " It ...
A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. within me would have led me to it , if Pliny , who is one of them , had not given me a rule ; " It is ingenuous to confess our benefactors . " It ...
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A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. good , and his mercy endureth for ever . But Lord , wilt thou leave my soul in darkness ! The light granted unto the soul , in the knowledge of ...
A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. good , and his mercy endureth for ever . But Lord , wilt thou leave my soul in darkness ! The light granted unto the soul , in the knowledge of ...
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A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. With such a view of the heavenly bodies , how little must the earth appear ! His improvement of the thought is , How little of this little has ...
A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. With such a view of the heavenly bodies , how little must the earth appear ! His improvement of the thought is , How little of this little has ...
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A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. whosoever thinks this is not governed by mind and understanding , is himself to be accounted void of all mind and understanding . According to Mr ...
A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements Cotton Mather. whosoever thinks this is not governed by mind and understanding , is himself to be accounted void of all mind and understanding . According to Mr ...
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Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
Page 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...