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... primrose stars in the shadowy grass , By the green leaves opening as I pass . " - Mrs HEMANS . W. OLIPHANT , JUN . AND CO . PRINTERS , 23 , SOUTH BRIDGE , EDINBURGH . ADVERTISEMENT . THE present Volume is the second of a.
... primrose stars in the shadowy grass , By the green leaves opening as I pass . " - Mrs HEMANS . W. OLIPHANT , JUN . AND CO . PRINTERS , 23 , SOUTH BRIDGE , EDINBURGH . ADVERTISEMENT . THE present Volume is the second of a.
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... leaves , the thousand delicate tints of the flowers scat- tered so profusely on swelling hill , and sweeping valley , with the perfume which they exhale , and the music poured from every grove - all unite to fill every sense with ...
... leaves , the thousand delicate tints of the flowers scat- tered so profusely on swelling hill , and sweeping valley , with the perfume which they exhale , and the music poured from every grove - all unite to fill every sense with ...
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... leaves , our first feelings are those of wonder and delight at the silent and marvellous change produced in the general aspect of Nature ; and we then naturally seek to con- template the causes of such a universal transition . By what ...
... leaves , our first feelings are those of wonder and delight at the silent and marvellous change produced in the general aspect of Nature ; and we then naturally seek to con- template the causes of such a universal transition . By what ...
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... leaves . What was lately bar- renness becomes fertility ; from desolation and death start up life and varied beauty , as if beneath the reviv- ing footsteps of a present Deity . Hence result all the beautiful and amazing phenomena of ...
... leaves . What was lately bar- renness becomes fertility ; from desolation and death start up life and varied beauty , as if beneath the reviv- ing footsteps of a present Deity . Hence result all the beautiful and amazing phenomena of ...
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... leaf and flower , were the great annual transition in the vegetable world effected instantane- ously . In the average winter temperature of our climate , most of our shrubs and trees cannot put forth their leaves . But as , in the ...
... leaf and flower , were the great annual transition in the vegetable world effected instantane- ously . In the average winter temperature of our climate , most of our shrubs and trees cannot put forth their leaves . But as , in the ...
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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,