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Meditations and Contemplations

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Robert Carter and Brothers, 1868 - 400 pages

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Contents

Remark on the notion of a great poet	36

Remarks on Mrs Stonehouses monument in the great church	39

The purity of God faintly represented by the unspotted firma	41

MEDITATIONS AMONG THE TOMBS	43

Case of a lady who died in childbed her character with regard	65

The meanness of being obliged to a monument for perpetuating	71

Soliloquy of a lover admonition to the ladies true beauty of	89

To be instrumental in saving our fellowcreatures from this misery	106

A DESCANT UPON CREATION	189

The setting	222

The profound silence universal cessation of business	236

Dreams their unaccountable oddness many peoples waking thoughts	244

Various attributes of the divine nature appear with a glimmering	254

Northern lights the panic they occasion the general conflagration	272

Moon under an eclipse gazed at by multitudes the faults of eminent	279

Moon actuates the sea the everlasting joys of heaven attract	285

Walk in the garden summer morning a soaring lark invitation	112

Diversity of flowers in their airs habits attitudes and lineaments	144

The bees their ingenuity their industry set an exampie for	182

CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE STARRY HEAVENS	291

Stars the centres of systems their inconceivable distance	301

Other editions - View all

Meditations and Contemplations: In Two Volumes, Volume 1
James Hervey
Full view - 1766

Meditations and Contemplations
James Hervey
Full view - 1810

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James Hervey
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Bibliographic information

Title	Meditations and Contemplations
Author	James Hervey
Publisher	Robert Carter and Brothers, 1868
Original from	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Digitized	17 Jul 2018
Length	400 pages

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