Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Tom 2Harper & brothers, 1847 |
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... Sometimes the tempest howls with redoubled fury , driving broad flakes of snow through the darkened air , and encumbering the wide earth with its drifted heaps ; and , while the herds on the low grounds stand forlorn and destitute of ...
... Sometimes the tempest howls with redoubled fury , driving broad flakes of snow through the darkened air , and encumbering the wide earth with its drifted heaps ; and , while the herds on the low grounds stand forlorn and destitute of ...
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... sometimes a mix- ture of several , or different proportions of them all ; and , again , the eye is so exquisitely formed , as to be differ- ently affected by the various kinds of reflected rays , and thus to be the faithful organ of the ...
... sometimes a mix- ture of several , or different proportions of them all ; and , again , the eye is so exquisitely formed , as to be differ- ently affected by the various kinds of reflected rays , and thus to be the faithful organ of the ...
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... sometimes found in the sand of rivers , are but stray treas- ures , rolled down from their native hills . These great mineral storehouses are sometimes up - torn by subterra- nean fires , and burst forth into terrible volcanoes . may ...
... sometimes found in the sand of rivers , are but stray treas- ures , rolled down from their native hills . These great mineral storehouses are sometimes up - torn by subterra- nean fires , and burst forth into terrible volcanoes . may ...
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... sometimes breathing softly , sometimes driving furiously , sometimes expanding this moisture by its heat , sometimes suddenly precipitating it by its cold , sometimes dispersing it far and wide , sometimes strongly compressing it by ...
... sometimes breathing softly , sometimes driving furiously , sometimes expanding this moisture by its heat , sometimes suddenly precipitating it by its cold , sometimes dispersing it far and wide , sometimes strongly compressing it by ...
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... sometimes fall in torrents , and occasional inundations may be the consequence ; but such occurrences are rare exceptions from a well - conceived rule . The moisture is generally distilled from the clouds in gentle and fer- tilizing ...
... sometimes fall in torrents , and occasional inundations may be the consequence ; but such occurrences are rare exceptions from a well - conceived rule . The moisture is generally distilled from the clouds in gentle and fer- tilizing ...
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Strona 376 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Strona 246 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Strona 328 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Strona 349 - 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...
Strona 218 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Strona 178 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Strona 41 - 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.
Strona 218 - 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...
Strona 218 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Strona 376 - While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before. Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.