A Spring-day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Seasonauthor, 1806 - 338 pages |
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Page 35
... soul , so that they may give timely intelligence of hurt to that rational monarch . How astonishing are the proper- ties of the eye ! displaying the wisdom and power ( which , indeed , all the other senses do , ) of our almignty Maker ...
... soul , so that they may give timely intelligence of hurt to that rational monarch . How astonishing are the proper- ties of the eye ! displaying the wisdom and power ( which , indeed , all the other senses do , ) of our almignty Maker ...
Page 36
... soul . By it we can find our way amidst the pathless ocean ; distinguish faces , however much a- like ; view the curiosities of machinery ; take up the stateliness , elegancy , and ornaments of architecture , and even canvass the celes ...
... soul . By it we can find our way amidst the pathless ocean ; distinguish faces , however much a- like ; view the curiosities of machinery ; take up the stateliness , elegancy , and ornaments of architecture , and even canvass the celes ...
Page 38
... soul be charmed with the beauties of nature , receive agreeable sensations from the power of melody , delight in the fra- grance of the field , relish food , or find com- fort in life ? These senses , in part , are indeed common to the ...
... soul be charmed with the beauties of nature , receive agreeable sensations from the power of melody , delight in the fra- grance of the field , relish food , or find com- fort in life ? These senses , in part , are indeed common to the ...
Page 40
... to answer the conveniences of life . But curiously and wonderfully as the bo- dy is framed , the soul is still more so , being an immaterial , thinking substance , posses- sed of powers immediately derived from God ; one of 40 CREATION .
... to answer the conveniences of life . But curiously and wonderfully as the bo- dy is framed , the soul is still more so , being an immaterial , thinking substance , posses- sed of powers immediately derived from God ; one of 40 CREATION .
Page 41
... soul as the breath to the body , the setter of all the other powers on motion ; not to speak of the passions , which , for no- ble purposes , the Most High hath endued us with , but which , alas ! are too often used to his dishonour ...
... soul as the breath to the body , the setter of all the other powers on motion ; not to speak of the passions , which , for no- ble purposes , the Most High hath endued us with , but which , alas ! are too often used to his dishonour ...
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