A Spring Day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Season |
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Turn we now to the ocean itself : what a world of waters are there ! and what a
water of wonders ! In this “ great and wide sea are “ things creeping innumerable
, both small “ and great beasts : There go the ships ; there “ is that leviathan ,
whom ...
Turn we now to the ocean itself : what a world of waters are there ! and what a
water of wonders ! In this “ great and wide sea are “ things creeping innumerable
, both small “ and great beasts : There go the ships ; there “ is that leviathan ,
whom ...
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These the great Shepherd often useth in chastising his flock when they go astray
, and in turning them back from forbidden paths ; as we see in the case of the
rebellious Israelites , when they assayed to go up into the land of Canaan ,
contrary ...
These the great Shepherd often useth in chastising his flock when they go astray
, and in turning them back from forbidden paths ; as we see in the case of the
rebellious Israelites , when they assayed to go up into the land of Canaan ,
contrary ...
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... the open mouth of persecution against the people of the Lord , whether as
individuals , or as a body , it is either for turning them back from forbidden paths ,
preventing them from going astray , recovering them from lukewarmness , trying
their ...
... the open mouth of persecution against the people of the Lord , whether as
individuals , or as a body , it is either for turning them back from forbidden paths ,
preventing them from going astray , recovering them from lukewarmness , trying
their ...
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... one eminence to another , looking anxiously around him : anon he descends
the steep towards the place where I stand : but all on a sudden , with hasty steps ,
he turns aside the other way , round the corner of the hill , and is lost to my view .
... one eminence to another , looking anxiously around him : anon he descends
the steep towards the place where I stand : but all on a sudden , with hasty steps ,
he turns aside the other way , round the corner of the hill , and is lost to my view .
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... will not be the case ; these must end , and the dreary winter approach with her
stern short day , and long bleak night , turning the earth as it were into iron , and
covering these green pastures and every neighbouring hill deep over with snow .
... will not be the case ; these must end , and the dreary winter approach with her
stern short day , and long bleak night , turning the earth as it were into iron , and
covering these green pastures and every neighbouring hill deep over with snow .
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| Title | A Spring Day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Season |
| Author | James Fisher |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | Author, 1819 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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