...author, " the most authentic historians agree, that every thing was God, but God himself; the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, the sea itself, and the earth also, the stars of the firmament, and every other creature of God's...

...of procuring the means of subsistence pervades all created nature, animal and vegetable; the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the plants of the earth, have all, as well as man, a far greater power of reproducing their...

...signs of the care of the Deity in a thousand particulars. If God then is thus watchful over the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the various species of the vegetable kingdom, from the tall oak on the mountain to the minutest...

...living creation is spoken of, it is generally by a detail of its several kinds; as " man, the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and all creeping things that creep ;" or, where reference is made to them all collectively, it...

...striking. Did time and space permit, I might run over the unnumbered tribes of living things; the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and all the curious and interesting orders of insects, trees, and plants, which adorn the terrestrial...

...and stars, the atmosphere and the passing meteors, the earth, the mountains and rivers, the heasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the reptiles of the ground. They worshipped men both living and dead, and in them the faculties...

...breath the air of our mundane surface ; to reduce into tangible and intelligible order, "the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and every creeping thing." This was the aim, these were the laboure of naturalists from Aristotle...

...original order to which animal nature is subjected, as applied to every species of it ; the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, with reptiles, and all manner of beings, which are possessed with animal life ; nor is pain, sickness,...

...plums and the peaches ; let him continue to think there are few if any so sweet this side the Allcgany mountains. What harm can there be in these early attachments...sermons. Better, because it pleases children more. Belter, because they understand us more fully. Better also, because we are more likely, much more so....

...What more is to be expected of their children? Would you ihen preach to children on those subjects? I shall be asked. Would you give them sermons on the...brook, the lambs of the flock, the peaches or the plums? — Most assuredly I would. I do not say, indeed, that I would have my sermons made out in due...