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... appear , The first pale blossom of the unripened year ; As Flora's breath , by some transforming power , Had changed an icicle into a flower ; Its name and hue the scentless plant retains , And winter lingers in its icy veins ...
... appear , The first pale blossom of the unripened year ; As Flora's breath , by some transforming power , Had changed an icicle into a flower ; Its name and hue the scentless plant retains , And winter lingers in its icy veins ...
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... appear . The sun continues longer above the horizon , and the weather , though still unsettled , is sufficiently dry to evaporate the superabundant moisture poured on the earth at the commencement of the season , in the form of rain or ...
... appear . The sun continues longer above the horizon , and the weather , though still unsettled , is sufficiently dry to evaporate the superabundant moisture poured on the earth at the commencement of the season , in the form of rain or ...
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... appears , ascending from the lichens of Lapland to the spice trees of the Tropics . In our gar- dens , as the temperature of the atmosphere rises , come successively the snow - drop , the crocus , the auricula , the polyanthus , and ...
... appears , ascending from the lichens of Lapland to the spice trees of the Tropics . In our gar- dens , as the temperature of the atmosphere rises , come successively the snow - drop , the crocus , the auricula , the polyanthus , and ...
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... appear to our eye of a certain colour . It probably consists in a peculiar arrangement of their minute particles . This arrangement may be destroyed by mechanical or che- mical agency ; which will account for the changes of colour in ...
... appear to our eye of a certain colour . It probably consists in a peculiar arrangement of their minute particles . This arrangement may be destroyed by mechanical or che- mical agency ; which will account for the changes of colour in ...
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... appear- ance any body presents from its occupying a certain quantity of space in certain directions . Figure is almost as varied as the productions and phe- nomena of Nature are numerous . In the vast and in the minute world , its ...
... appear- ance any body presents from its occupying a certain quantity of space in certain directions . Figure is almost as varied as the productions and phe- nomena of Nature are numerous . In the vast and in the minute world , its ...
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Page 101 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 35 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 70 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 372 - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Page 39 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 235 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 372 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 235 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Page 133 - Alternate triumphed in his breast ; His bliss and woe— a smile, a tear ! Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirits' rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Page 235 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,