| 1820 - 310 pages
...not see a great variety of creatures lower than you, and made for your use ? What else are the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, and rivers ? Are you not much better than they ? furnished with greater excellencies and powers ? and... | |
| George Fulton - 1826 - 224 pages
...variety of food is eaten by man ! The fruits of the orchard, the productions of the garden and the field, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, are put in requisition for his support and gratification. He eats the juicy pear and the apple, the... | |
| 1830 - 200 pages
...vicegerent upon earth; and, with express conditions and stipulations of mercy, received dominion over the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea. When these conditions are violated by man, as is daily exemplified, such violation of the divine will... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 352 pages
...Having trepanned you into a description — no, not a description, but an enumeration of all the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, which are worthy of mention in Jamaica, I shall conclude my account of the inquiries that have been... | |
| John Pring - 1837 - 424 pages
...turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming." (Jer. viii. 7). " The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea ; even that leviathan, whom he has made to take his pastime therein" I! (Ps. civ.) ; these wait all... | |
| Jonathan Edmondson - 1839 - 404 pages
...maketh lightnings for the rain ; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries." Ps. cxxxv. 7. He feedeth the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea. This is beautifully expressed in holy writ : " Behold the fowls of the air ; for they sow not, neither... | |
| John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 pages
...propensities of animated nature, that we can hope to be successful in our contrivances for subduing the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the waters, to minister to our use and support, or for preventing them endangering our lives and injuring... | |
| Samuel Wilderspin - 1840 - 520 pages
...him. Q. Has man a just right to take the whale's life? A. Certainly; God gave mankind dominion over the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea. Q. In what seas is the whale-fishing carried on ? A. In the North seas, where the fish most abounds.... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1840 - 196 pages
...is love; for the sun, moon, and stars light us, and the clouds give us grateful showers. The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, say that God is love; for he has given the birds wings to fly with, the beasts the means to provide... | |
| Feargus O'Connor - 1843 - 204 pages
...industrious seeker but of the idle owner ; while, under the game laws and fishing restrictions, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the stream, contrary to God's ordinance, are preserved to the use of the landlord, so that, in due time,... | |
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