The World in Miniature: Embracing a History of the Various Religions; Brief Notice of Nearly All the Benevolent Societies of the World; Notice of the Instruments and Machines Used in Scientific Investigations ... Agriculture; A General View of the Earth ; Notice of All Nations ; with Their Population, Square Miles, &c. Statistics: Embracing the Census for 1840. Debt of the United States, Commerce, Manufactures, Mint of the United States, Military Force, Post-Office Department ... Public Lands, &c. Also the Government of the United States, Congress, Revenue and Expenditures ... Foreign Intercourse, Persons Employed, Pensioners, Education ... Indians, Navy, Disasters at Sea, Banks and Specie, Cotton, and Much Other Important Statistical Information, Concerning Different Nations ... To which is Added a Nomenclature of Technical Terms ...

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Bolles & Williams, 1842 - 185 oldal
 

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43. oldal - But sing and shine by sweet consent, Till life's poor transient night is spent, Respecting in each other's case The gifts of nature and of grace. Those Christians best deserve the...
126. oldal - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
13. oldal - Christ to everlasting glory, before the foundation of the world, according to his immutable purpose, and of his free grace and love, without the least foresight of faith, good works, or any conditions performed by the creature ; and that the rest of mankind...
13. oldal - ALL those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
101. oldal - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana.
13. oldal - They maintain that God hath chosen a certain number of the fallen race of Adam in Christ, before the foundation of the world, unto eternal glory, according to his immutable purpose, and of his free grace and love, without the least foresight of faith, good works, or any conditions performed by the creature; and that the rest of mankind he was pleased to pass by, and ordain to dishonour and wrath, for their sins, to the praise of his vindictive justice.
128. oldal - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
16. oldal - Spire, in 1529, to request aid from the German princes against the Turks, and to devise the most effectual means for allaying the religious disputes, which then raged in consequence of Luther's opposition to the established religion.
125. oldal - There are also three complete circulations of his blood in the short space of an hour. In respect to the comparative speed of animated beings, and of impelled bodies, it may be remarked that size and construction seem to have little influence, nor has comparative strength ; though one body giving any quantity of motion to another is said to lose so much of its own. The sloth is by no means a small animal, and yet it can travel only fifty paces in a day ; a worm crawls only five inches in fifty seconds...
66. oldal - He therefore visits the clergy; and has his separate court for punishment of offenders by spiritual censures, and for hearing all other causes of ecclesiastical cognizance.

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