A Spring Day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful SeasonAuthor, 1819 - 344 pages |
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... creature with wonder , and in no sea- son more than Spring . Then Nature , having burst the iron fetters of stern Winter , and broken down its icy prison , shivering at first , creeps gently forth ; but now , having become vivid ...
... creature with wonder , and in no sea- son more than Spring . Then Nature , having burst the iron fetters of stern Winter , and broken down its icy prison , shivering at first , creeps gently forth ; but now , having become vivid ...
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... creature ; and so could not do things at once , but must take time for his work , and employ his wisdom in consult- ing the natures of the different species of those creatures , and give them their designations accordingly , which ...
... creature ; and so could not do things at once , but must take time for his work , and employ his wisdom in consult- ing the natures of the different species of those creatures , and give them their designations accordingly , which ...
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... creature so like himself , the comeliest of all creation around ! and still more so , when by revelation he knew she was made of a rib from his side ! Bone of his bone , and flesh of his flesh , he confessed she was , and called her ...
... creature so like himself , the comeliest of all creation around ! and still more so , when by revelation he knew she was made of a rib from his side ! Bone of his bone , and flesh of his flesh , he confessed she was , and called her ...
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... " Hear , O heavens , and be astonished , O earth ! " it was not only to create him a holy and happy creature , nor , when he had fallen by his iniquity , still to continue to preserve him in being , and supply him out of 16 CREATION .
... " Hear , O heavens , and be astonished , O earth ! " it was not only to create him a holy and happy creature , nor , when he had fallen by his iniquity , still to continue to preserve him in being , and supply him out of 16 CREATION .
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... creature as man ! If the king of Israel was lost in thought at viewing this afar off , what ought we to be who live in gospel days ! The works of nature naturally lead the con- templative mind up the stream of creation to God the ...
... creature as man ! If the king of Israel was lost in thought at viewing this afar off , what ought we to be who live in gospel days ! The works of nature naturally lead the con- templative mind up the stream of creation to God the ...
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