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... Pleasures derived from the cultiva- tion of fields and gardens The tulip • 115 Reflections on grass • 162 . 163 . 165 ... Pleasure derived from the contem- plation of nature The glory of God seen in the crea- tion of animals Hymn on the ...
... Pleasures derived from the cultiva- tion of fields and gardens The tulip • 115 Reflections on grass • 162 . 163 . 165 ... Pleasure derived from the contem- plation of nature The glory of God seen in the crea- tion of animals Hymn on the ...
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... pleasures which summer offers to our senses Sketch of the internal parts of the human body Electricity . 216 Thunder PAGE • . 284 285 Contemplation upon a meadow . 287 218 Mischiefs caused by animals 219 Variety of colours 221 ...
... pleasures which summer offers to our senses Sketch of the internal parts of the human body Electricity . 216 Thunder PAGE • . 284 285 Contemplation upon a meadow . 287 218 Mischiefs caused by animals 219 Variety of colours 221 ...
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... pleasure , and pulsate with gratitude , for such choice gifts . But when the north wind blows , when a biting frost stiffens the face of the earth , when the fields , stripped of their fruits , and divested of all their charms , present ...
... pleasure , and pulsate with gratitude , for such choice gifts . But when the north wind blows , when a biting frost stiffens the face of the earth , when the fields , stripped of their fruits , and divested of all their charms , present ...
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... pleasure and instruction derived from reading and writing . How many of the productions of the earth would be useless to us were they not softened and prepared by means of fire ! If fire was not had recourse to by artists , how many ...
... pleasure and instruction derived from reading and writing . How many of the productions of the earth would be useless to us were they not softened and prepared by means of fire ! If fire was not had recourse to by artists , how many ...
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... pleasures of the table . Gorged with ex- cess , he throws himself upon a couch to recruit his exhausted powers . The ... Pleasure is not the business of our lives ; the power of obtaining it is granted us by a beneficent God , to serve ...
... pleasures of the table . Gorged with ex- cess , he throws himself upon a couch to recruit his exhausted powers . The ... Pleasure is not the business of our lives ; the power of obtaining it is granted us by a beneficent God , to serve ...
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Page 60 - it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so : and God called the firmament heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day. The
Page 35 - Thou hast opened the fountain and the torrent; thou hast dried up the mighty rivers. 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
Page 35 - that he may bring forth fruit out of the earth."|| " For thus saith the Lord that created the heaven: God himself that formed the earth and made it, and hath established it, created it not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is
Page 204 - the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.'" JUNE X. IMMENSITY OF THE FIRMAMENT. Approach, O man! and contemplate the firmament: regard
Page 34 - He has stretched out the heavens over the chaos, and hath hung the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. His power raiseth the waves of the sea, and his wisdom restraineth their
Page 61 - kind, cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Every thing was now prepared; and God created man, to whom he gave dominion over the fish of the sea,
Page 411 - resemble an hungry man who dreameth that he eats ; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh ; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite.
Page 60 - on the third day God said Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; let the earth bring forth grass, the
Page 186 - judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? Or who hath been his counsellor ? For of him, and through him, and
Page 60 - let the dry land appear; let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind : and it was so.