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... Tree of Knowledge — Andover Appealed To — XVII . The Fall — The Serpent — Dr . Adam Clark Gives a Zoological ... Trees —A Landscape Compared to a Table - cloth — The Supernatural is the Deformed — Inspiration in the Man as well as in the ...
... Tree of Knowledge — Andover Appealed To — XVII . The Fall — The Serpent — Dr . Adam Clark Gives a Zoological ... Trees —A Landscape Compared to a Table - cloth — The Supernatural is the Deformed — Inspiration in the Man as well as in the ...
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... tree of knowledge , and hoot the same old hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years . Their congregations are not grand enough , nor sufficiently civilized , to be willing that the poor preachers shall think for themselves ...
... tree of knowledge , and hoot the same old hoots that have been hooted for eighteen hundred years . Their congregations are not grand enough , nor sufficiently civilized , to be willing that the poor preachers shall think for themselves ...
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... trees , to curse the grass and flowers , and glorify the dust and weeds . They are expected to malign the wicked people in the green and happy fields , who sit and laugh beside the gurgling springs or climb the hills and wander as they ...
... trees , to curse the grass and flowers , and glorify the dust and weeds . They are expected to malign the wicked people in the green and happy fields , who sit and laugh beside the gurgling springs or climb the hills and wander as they ...
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... trees laughed into bud and blossom , and the branches were laden with fruit . And all this happened before a ray had left the quiver of the sun , before a glittering beam had thrilled the bosom of a flower , and before the Dawn with ...
... trees laughed into bud and blossom , and the branches were laden with fruit . And all this happened before a ray had left the quiver of the sun , before a glittering beam had thrilled the bosom of a flower , and before the Dawn with ...
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... trees could grow and ripen into seed and fruit without the sun . According to the account , this all happened on the ... tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind ; and God saw that it was good , and the evening and the ...
... trees could grow and ripen into seed and fruit without the sun . According to the account , this all happened on the ... tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind ; and God saw that it was good , and the evening and the ...
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Page 182 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 111 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Page 326 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 63 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 64 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 257 - ... If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 303 - And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Page 109 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 146 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.