Reflections for Every Day in the Year: On the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature. From the German of Mr. C.C. Sturm, Volume 1D. Schaw and Company, 1800 |
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... human voice , 5 The duty of collecting our thoughts in winter , 54 The fear of spectres , 56 Subterraneous fires , 58 Comets , 61 Snow , 63 The rapidity with which human life passes away , 65 Frost sometimes seen on glass - windows ...
... human voice , 5 The duty of collecting our thoughts in winter , 54 The fear of spectres , 56 Subterraneous fires , 58 Comets , 61 Snow , 63 The rapidity with which human life passes away , 65 Frost sometimes seen on glass - windows ...
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... HUMAN VOICE . THE human voice is the greatest master - piece of the Creator . Whether we consider its prin- ciple , its variations , or its organs , it is impossible to fathom its admirable mechanism . Let us now try to reflect silently ...
... HUMAN VOICE . THE human voice is the greatest master - piece of the Creator . Whether we consider its prin- ciple , its variations , or its organs , it is impossible to fathom its admirable mechanism . Let us now try to reflect silently ...
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... human voice is twelve full tones . To produce this variety , then , it was necessary , that the windwipe should be di- vided into twelve equal parts . And , as its two sides , when stretched , are distant from each other the tenth part ...
... human voice is twelve full tones . To produce this variety , then , it was necessary , that the windwipe should be di- vided into twelve equal parts . And , as its two sides , when stretched , are distant from each other the tenth part ...
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... human art has ever been able to imitate it by any machine . Song , indeed , has been imitated ; but not the articulation of sounds , or the pronunciation of different vowels . In several organs , there is a stop called the human voice ...
... human art has ever been able to imitate it by any machine . Song , indeed , has been imitated ; but not the articulation of sounds , or the pronunciation of different vowels . In several organs , there is a stop called the human voice ...
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... human heart , and to feel the necessity of watching over our imagination . If it deceives us in the night , by ... voice of God , which cries aloud , Prepare , O Israel to meet thy God ! How incon- sistent to rest in security ...
... human heart , and to feel the necessity of watching over our imagination . If it deceives us in the night , by ... voice of God , which cries aloud , Prepare , O Israel to meet thy God ! How incon- sistent to rest in security ...
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Page 278 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 51 - For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
Page 49 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 51 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 50 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 48 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 259 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 50 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
Page 49 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : Who maketh the clouds his chariot: Who walketh upon the wings of the wind : Who maketh his angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire : Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be removed for ever.
Page 48 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.