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... existence and the attributes of God , in the various phenomena of the revolving year . Each volume contains an argu- ment complete in itself , and peculiar to the season of which it treats . The present exhibits proofs of the Divine ...
... existence and the attributes of God , in the various phenomena of the revolving year . Each volume contains an argu- ment complete in itself , and peculiar to the season of which it treats . The present exhibits proofs of the Divine ...
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... in the consciousness of young existence ; the hum of the industrious bees , as they fly from flower to flower col- * Howitt's Book of the Seasons . lecting their sweet food , and the varied notes of 4 GENERAL CHARACTER OF SPRING.
... in the consciousness of young existence ; the hum of the industrious bees , as they fly from flower to flower col- * Howitt's Book of the Seasons . lecting their sweet food , and the varied notes of 4 GENERAL CHARACTER OF SPRING.
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... existence of danger , warns him of the approaching storm , and dis- covers to his distant eye the hidden reef or shoal , and the breakers of a rocky coast . The variety of Nature depends still more upon the figure of bodies than upon ...
... existence of danger , warns him of the approaching storm , and dis- covers to his distant eye the hidden reef or shoal , and the breakers of a rocky coast . The variety of Nature depends still more upon the figure of bodies than upon ...
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... existence . Their vast masses attract the clouds , and receive , in the form of rain , hail , or snow , the vapours with which the atmo- sphere is charged , even when the plains below are parched with summer drought ; and hence the ...
... existence . Their vast masses attract the clouds , and receive , in the form of rain , hail , or snow , the vapours with which the atmo- sphere is charged , even when the plains below are parched with summer drought ; and hence the ...
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... existence of springs . They consist , generally , of stratified rocks , and , in many of the lower elevations , of gravel , through which the moisture passes readily , alter- nating with beds of clay or marl , where it is arrested in ...
... existence of springs . They consist , generally , of stratified rocks , and , in many of the lower elevations , of gravel , through which the moisture passes readily , alter- nating with beds of clay or marl , where it is arrested in ...
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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,