The world's birth-day [tr. by J.H. from Leçons sur quelques chapitres de la Genèse]. |
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40. oldal
... , or like a small grain of sand placed on a house 20 feet in height . You may judge of it also in another way by another calculation . Suppose that you wished to take a rapid glance at 40 66 HEAVEN " . " EARTH . " GOD *
... , or like a small grain of sand placed on a house 20 feet in height . You may judge of it also in another way by another calculation . Suppose that you wished to take a rapid glance at 40 66 HEAVEN " . " EARTH . " GOD *
41. oldal
... height from which you could see forty miles in every direction . This would be certainly a very extensive view , and it would take more than an hour to see it well , since it would comprehend 1,800 square miles , or forty - five times ...
... height from which you could see forty miles in every direction . This would be certainly a very extensive view , and it would take more than an hour to see it well , since it would comprehend 1,800 square miles , or forty - five times ...
50. oldal
... height than forty or forty - five miles above the earth . Even at the top of Mont Blanc the air becomes so thin , and there is so very little of it , that people can scarcely breathe there ; and forty miles higher there is no air at all ...
... height than forty or forty - five miles above the earth . Even at the top of Mont Blanc the air becomes so thin , and there is so very little of it , that people can scarcely breathe there ; and forty miles higher there is no air at all ...
54. oldal
... heights of heaven , the distance and the size of the bright stars that are sparkling by thousands in the sky . Nay , ( can you believe it ? ) they have even discovered the weight of some of the bright worlds of light that are shining so ...
... heights of heaven , the distance and the size of the bright stars that are sparkling by thousands in the sky . Nay , ( can you believe it ? ) they have even discovered the weight of some of the bright worlds of light that are shining so ...
67. oldal
... height , he had chosen to make them of such an enormous size that , with their feet on earth , their heads should have reached the sun , so that a cannon ball , flying day and night would have taken ten years and three months to THE ...
... height , he had chosen to make them of such an enormous size that , with their feet on earth , their heads should have reached the sun , so that a cannon ball , flying day and night would have taken ten years and three months to THE ...
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12. oldal - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
141. oldal - THEN THE LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; For I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
234. oldal - Then shall the earth yield her increase ; And GOD, even our own GOD, shall bless us. GOD shall bless us ; And all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
188. oldal - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
23. oldal - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
132. oldal - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
242. oldal - There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
44. oldal - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
269. oldal - The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
234. oldal - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.