A Spring Day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful SeasonAuthor, 1819 - 344 pages |
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... wise , the surface of the globe had been level , they would have stood stagnated , and proved rather prejudicial than helpful and nourishing to plants and animals . Besides , do not the mountains beautify the landscape , and keep the ...
... wise , the surface of the globe had been level , they would have stood stagnated , and proved rather prejudicial than helpful and nourishing to plants and animals . Besides , do not the mountains beautify the landscape , and keep the ...
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... wise would prove troublesome to man . There the adder and the snake in wanton curls can sport among the heath , and bask themselves amid the sunny beams , without either much annoying man , or being annoyed by him : The high hills are a ...
... wise would prove troublesome to man . There the adder and the snake in wanton curls can sport among the heath , and bask themselves amid the sunny beams , without either much annoying man , or being annoyed by him : The high hills are a ...
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... wise disposal of things ; and , as we have our life and being from him , as the showers accomplish the end for which they are sent on the earth , and then again return to the sea ; so may we answer the end for which we were sent into ...
... wise disposal of things ; and , as we have our life and being from him , as the showers accomplish the end for which they are sent on the earth , and then again return to the sea ; so may we answer the end for which we were sent into ...
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... wise , seeing he hath decked them with such graceful pinions , and otherwise qualified them for performing the functions of animal life . How admirably are they suited with bills ! whereas , if their mouths had been large , and in their ...
... wise , seeing he hath decked them with such graceful pinions , and otherwise qualified them for performing the functions of animal life . How admirably are they suited with bills ! whereas , if their mouths had been large , and in their ...
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... wise disposal of things . Did the horse , that most beautiful of all the four - footed kind , the strength and cou- rage of which is terrible in war ; or the lusty See Encyclopędia Britannica . ox , which bellows in our fields , know ...
... wise disposal of things . Did the horse , that most beautiful of all the four - footed kind , the strength and cou- rage of which is terrible in war ; or the lusty See Encyclopędia Britannica . ox , which bellows in our fields , know ...
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