Proofs and Illustrations of the Attributes of God: From the Facts and Laws of the Physical Universe : Being the Foundation of Natural and Revealed Religion, المجلد 2J. Duncan, 1843 |
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الصفحة 261 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
الصفحة 298 - And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. 13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
الصفحة 252 - Thus sailing the heavens, it descends again, unchanged, again to renew the same ceaseless round : for ever roaming between the earth and the vacant regions of space; wandering about the earth below, in the performance of its endless duties, and though appearing at rest, resting nowhere. This, and more, is Water : powerful in its weakness, and powerful in its strength : an union of feebleness and force, of incessant activity and apparent tranquillity, of nullity and ubiquity, of insignificance and...
الصفحة 252 - ... reducing the thousand solids of the earth to its own form. Again, existing at one instant, in the next it is gone, as if it were annihilated : to him who knows not its nature, it has ceased to be. It is a lake, and in a short time it is nothing : again it is that lake, and it is a solid rock. It is...
الصفحة 251 - ... with the spirit of life : a self-acting agent, a very will, in the unceasing river, the dancing brook, the furious torrent, and the restless ocean : speaking with its own voice, in the tinkling of the dropping cavern, the murmuring of the rill, the rush of the cascade, and the roar of the sea wave ; and, even in the placid lake, throwing its own spirit of vitality over the immoveable objects around.
الصفحة 252 - ... objects around. And if its motion is the life of the landscape, it is, at rest, the point of contrast and repose for the turbulent multiplicity of the surrounding objects : a tempering shadow in reflecting the bright picture, and, as the mirror of the sky, a light amid darkness; while it is the colour to enhance what it contrasts, whether in its splendour or its shade. Its singular oppositions of character are not less striking. Yielding to every impulse, unresisting, even to light, it becomes...
الصفحة 251 - IT is the poet of nature who should write the history of water. Familiar, even to neglect, this is a wonderful substance, and we forget to admire; beautiful, and we do not note its beauty. Transparent, and colourless, it is the emblem of purity : in its mobility it is...
الصفحة 425 - And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
الصفحة 251 - Transparent, and colourless, it is the emblem of purity: in its mobility it is imbued with the spirit of life: a self-acting agent, a very will, in the unceasing river, the dancing brook, the furious torrent, and the restless ocean: speaking with its own voice, in the tinkling of the dropping cavern, the murmuring of the rill, the rush of the cascade, and the...