On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Volume 2Whittaker, 1823 - Nature |
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... hand , she lavishes on all those , who admire and love the noblest , and most beautiful of her various works . Thus we all come to the same point of happiness at last . Thus the Ganges and Burrampooter , rising in the neighbourhood of ...
... hand , she lavishes on all those , who admire and love the noblest , and most beautiful of her various works . Thus we all come to the same point of happiness at last . Thus the Ganges and Burrampooter , rising in the neighbourhood of ...
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... hand . " What ! " exclaimed the astonished guest , " is it pos- sible , that your majesty , so magnificently clothed with strings of jewels , and bracelets of gold , could employ yourself in planting of flowers and trees ? " " I swear ...
... hand . " What ! " exclaimed the astonished guest , " is it pos- sible , that your majesty , so magnificently clothed with strings of jewels , and bracelets of gold , could employ yourself in planting of flowers and trees ? " " I swear ...
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... hands ; and Cyprian lived in a garden of a small vil- lage in the neighbourhood of Carthage . There he was lost , as it were , in contemplation , when the Valerian per- secution began . St. Augustine was equally attached to the beauties ...
... hands ; and Cyprian lived in a garden of a small vil- lage in the neighbourhood of Carthage . There he was lost , as it were , in contemplation , when the Valerian per- secution began . St. Augustine was equally attached to the beauties ...
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... hand of an Almighty Power , my Lelius , in the expanding flower , examine it in the bud ; and say , if any thing can be more exquisitely folded than the petals , formed in the calyx , before that calyx expands . Perfect emblems are they ...
... hand of an Almighty Power , my Lelius , in the expanding flower , examine it in the bud ; and say , if any thing can be more exquisitely folded than the petals , formed in the calyx , before that calyx expands . Perfect emblems are they ...
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... hand , have , when growing in their natural spheres , every object and wish concentrated in themselves and their companions . In one instance , there- fore , they enjoy a superiority over the whole of animated nature . Animals , from ...
... hand , have , when growing in their natural spheres , every object and wish concentrated in themselves and their companions . In one instance , there- fore , they enjoy a superiority over the whole of animated nature . Animals , from ...
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Page 212 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Page 223 - As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 263 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 232 - There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Page 308 - A man, who is born into a world, already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food ; and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At Nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he does not work upon the compassion of some of the guests.
Page 243 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 183 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Page 223 - Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well...
Page 67 - My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Page 249 - I was, at that very moment, in possession of what had for many years been the principal object of my ambition and wishes ; indifference, which, from the usual infirmity of human nature, follows, at least for a time, complete enjoyment, had taken place of it. The marsh and the fountains of the Nile, upon comparison with the rise of many of our rivers, became now a trifling object in my sight.