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... never close at all . We may also remark that neither one , nor two , nor even ten large pitchers are assigned to each plant , but that every leaf - stalk has its own . Hence every leaf receives a necessary supply of moisture through ...
... never close at all . We may also remark that neither one , nor two , nor even ten large pitchers are assigned to each plant , but that every leaf - stalk has its own . Hence every leaf receives a necessary supply of moisture through ...
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... never visited Labrador , might safely infer from the construction of the plants , that the nature of their soil and climate was widely different ; that in one , water was more scarce than in the other ; and that , consequently , birds ...
... never visited Labrador , might safely infer from the construction of the plants , that the nature of their soil and climate was widely different ; that in one , water was more scarce than in the other ; and that , consequently , birds ...
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... never grows wild in England , and even the few English vegetables , which in any respect resemble it , flourish on rocks and walls , and their juicy tubes secrete a liquid which is invaluable in medicine . Such are the water plants ...
... never grows wild in England , and even the few English vegetables , which in any respect resemble it , flourish on rocks and walls , and their juicy tubes secrete a liquid which is invaluable in medicine . Such are the water plants ...
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... in flavour , to that produced from milk . Salt is not essential to its preservation , in even that hot country ; and salt , perhaps , could not easily be obtained ; vegetable butter , therefore , never becomes 24 THE THIRD DAY OF CREATION .
... in flavour , to that produced from milk . Salt is not essential to its preservation , in even that hot country ; and salt , perhaps , could not easily be obtained ; vegetable butter , therefore , never becomes 24 THE THIRD DAY OF CREATION .
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Mary Roberts. be obtained ; vegetable butter , therefore , never becomes rancid , but it will keep even through the year . Now look to that vast extent of country , the native regions of the Cocos , which include a considerable part of ...
Mary Roberts. be obtained ; vegetable butter , therefore , never becomes rancid , but it will keep even through the year . Now look to that vast extent of country , the native regions of the Cocos , which include a considerable part of ...
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Page 215 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 112 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 226 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Page 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 46 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 194 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 61 - 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 and years...
Page 218 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.