Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature, Volume 1D. Shaw and Company, 1800 |
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... happiness , and the future hopes I am permitted to indulge . I enter with the present day , into a new period of life , not so much unprovided for , nor so helpless , as when I first came into the world , but with equal occasion VOL . I ...
... happiness , and the future hopes I am permitted to indulge . I enter with the present day , into a new period of life , not so much unprovided for , nor so helpless , as when I first came into the world , but with equal occasion VOL . I ...
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... happiness , and every thing relating to me was to contribute towards fulfilling his beneficent views . With this first day of the year , my lot is , as it were , settled over again . The Lord , who gave me being , takes in at one glance ...
... happiness , and every thing relating to me was to contribute towards fulfilling his beneficent views . With this first day of the year , my lot is , as it were , settled over again . The Lord , who gave me being , takes in at one glance ...
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... happiness of man . Then I may apply to myself these words of a holy patriarch : " I am nothing in comparison of all the goodness and mercy " with which thou hast acted towards thy ser- " vant . " JANUARY IV . SEVERAL USES OF FIRE . FIRE ...
... happiness of man . Then I may apply to myself these words of a holy patriarch : " I am nothing in comparison of all the goodness and mercy " with which thou hast acted towards thy ser- " vant . " JANUARY IV . SEVERAL USES OF FIRE . FIRE ...
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... happiness of our fellow- creatures , and even to the welfare of every living animal . To be cruel towards animals , to refuse them food , and indispensible conveniencies , is to act manifestly contrary to the will of our common Creator ...
... happiness of our fellow- creatures , and even to the welfare of every living animal . To be cruel towards animals , to refuse them food , and indispensible conveniencies , is to act manifestly contrary to the will of our common Creator ...
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... happier than the inhabitants of those countries , where the cold is so much greater , and lasts so much longer , that our severest winters would appear to them to have the mildness of au- tumn . Let us compare , in imagination , our lot ...
... happier than the inhabitants of those countries , where the cold is so much greater , and lasts so much longer , that our severest winters would appear to them to have the mildness of au- tumn . Let us compare , in imagination , our lot ...
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Page 276 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 47 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 49 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 48 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 46 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 49 - For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
Page 48 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: Which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.
Page 47 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 48 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Page 257 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...