The heavens and the earth; or, Familiar illustrations of astronomy

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Religious Tract Society, 1873

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Página 115 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...
Página 294 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Página 251 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Página 97 - Thus saith the LORD ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, And my covenant of the night, And that there should not be day and night in their season. Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, That he should not have a son to reign upon his throne ; And with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Página 294 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea ; Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south ; Which doeth great things past finding out ; yea, and wonders without number.
Página 112 - For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations : thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
Página 106 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Página 64 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.
Página 205 - Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Página 24 - When I behold this goodly frame, this World Of Heaven and Earth consisting, and compute Their magnitudes ; this Earth, a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compared...

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