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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... JACOB. We are come now to one that we are sure is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ, his name Jacob, or Israel, being applied in Scripture to our blessed Lord (Is. xlix. 3). It is not, I think, in the character, so much as in the circumstances of Jacob's history, that we must expect to find a resemblance to our Lord. In the faith and patience of Noah, the obedience of Isaac, as well, indeed, as the faith and obedience of Abraham, we do see some of the perfections of our Lord faintly shadowed forth. In Jacob we see a very tried and afflicted man; and we know that our Lord was called "the man of sorrows." But we must remember Jacob's sufferings were the just and natural consequence of his own sins; our Lord's sufferings were only the consequence of the sins of others. See what a glorious difference here between the type and the antitype. You may find many passages in Scripture which declare that our Lord had no sin. Let us see, now, in what circumstances of Jacob's life he was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1. The Lord chose the patriarch Jacob to be the father of the Jewish nation, before he was born. So, our Lord was loved and chosen by His Father before the foundation of the world, to be the Father of all that believe. Isa. ix. 6,--" For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." John xvii. 24,--"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." 2. The Jews, or Israelites, are so called from Jacob, to whom the Lord gave the name of Israel, which sign...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: A Physiology and Hygiene With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks and Other Narcotics Upon the Human System. for Lower Grammar or Intermediate Grades, and Common Schools; Original Published by: Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn in 1891 in 169 pages; Subjects: Health

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: D. C. Heath & co. in 1902 in 144 pages; Subjects: Laboratory animals; Zoology; Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Zoology; Medical / Veterinary Medicine / General; Nature / Animals; Nature / Wildlife; Science / Experiments & Projects; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... Or NEBULA Scattered about here and there among the stars are certain patches of faint luminosity called by astronomers Nebulae. These " little clouds" of filmy light are among the most fascinating of all the kaleidoscopic phenomena of the heavens; for it needs but a glance at one of them to give the impression that here before us is the stuff of which worlds are made. All our knowledge of Nature leads us to expect in her finished work the result of a series of gradual processes of development. Highly organized phenomena such as those existing in our solar system did not spring into perfection in an instant. Influential forces, easy to imagine, but difficult to define, must have directed the slow, sure transformation of elemental matter into sun and planets, things and men. Therefore a study of those forces and of their probable action upon nebular material has always exerted a strong attraction upon the acutest thinkers among men of exact science. Our knowledge of the nebulae is of two kinds--" that which has been ascertained from observation as to their appearance, size, distribution, and distance; and that which is based upon hypotheses and theoretical reasoning about the condensation of stellar systems out of nebular masses. It so happens that our observational material has received a very important addition quite recently through the application of photography to the delineation of nebulas, and this we shall describe farther on. Two nebulas only are visible to the unaided eye. The brighter of these is in the constellation Andromeda; it is of oval or elliptical shape, and has a distinct central condensation or nucleus. Upon a photograph by Roberts it appears to have several concentric rings surrounding the nebula proper, and gives the general impressio...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: An Elementary Lesson Book Designed to Teach the Nature and Properties of Alcoholic Liquors, and the Action of Alcohol on the Body; Original Published by: National Temperance League in 1879 in 169 pages; Subjects: Temperance; Alcohol; Liquors; Cooking / Beverages / Wine