Scientific Lectures and Essays

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Macmillan, 1893 - 336 sivua

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Sivu 278 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Sivu 312 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Sivu 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Sivu 11 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Sivu 317 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Sivu 207 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Sivu 319 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Sivu 247 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Sivu 277 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Sivu 299 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

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