Electricity: its phenomena, laws and results [by E. Sidney].Religious Tract Society, 1843 - 184 σελίδες |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Electricity: its phenomena, laws and results [by E. Sidney]. By E.Sidney Edwin Sidney Πλήρης προβολή - 1861 |
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Σελίδα 42 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Σελίδα 117 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed ; and, viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Σελίδα 15 - I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number...
Σελίδα 3 - And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Σελίδα 85 - Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood ; and yet, its flame unquench'd, The unconquerable lightning struggles through, Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage.
Σελίδα 15 - Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
Σελίδα 134 - The compass plac'd to catch the rising ray, The quadrant's shadows studious they survey ; Along the arch the gradual index slides, While Phoebus down the vertic circle glides; Now, seen on ocean's utmost verge to swim, He sweeps it vibrant with his nether limb. Their sage experience thus explores the height And polar distance of the source of light : Then thro' the chiliad's triple maze they trace Th...
Σελίδα 159 - Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Σελίδα 42 - I send thee not to volumes for thy cure ; Read Nature ; Nature is a friend to truth ; Nature is christian ; preaches to mankind ; And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. Hast thou ne'er seen the comet's flaming flight ? Th...
Σελίδα 133 - The dim horizon lowering vapours shroud, And blot the sun yet struggling in the cloud ; Through the wide atmosphere, condensed with haze, His glaring orb emits a sanguine blaze. The pilots now their azimuth attend, On which all courses, duly form'd, depend : The compass placed to catch the rising ray...