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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... true pleasures in discovering throughout all things , traces of the wisdom , power , and goodness of our great Creator . However li- mited their natural faculties may be , they will al- ways find subjects enough to employ their minds ...
... true pleasures in discovering throughout all things , traces of the wisdom , power , and goodness of our great Creator . However li- mited their natural faculties may be , they will al- ways find subjects enough to employ their minds ...
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... true ornaments are in himself . The storms of adversity may sometimes shake him , but they cannot overpower him ; and he soon rises again above the stormy regions . If he is reduced by misfortune to po- verty , he is still rich in ...
... true ornaments are in himself . The storms of adversity may sometimes shake him , but they cannot overpower him ; and he soon rises again above the stormy regions . If he is reduced by misfortune to po- verty , he is still rich in ...
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... true , that death often gives warning of its approach several hours or days before : But the real moment in which death seizes us happens suddenly ; and when we shall seem to feel the first blow , it will already be our last . The ...
... true , that death often gives warning of its approach several hours or days before : But the real moment in which death seizes us happens suddenly ; and when we shall seem to feel the first blow , it will already be our last . The ...
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... true , that death often gives warning of its approach several hours or days before : But the real moment in which death seizes us happens suddenly ; and when we shall seem to feel the first blow , it will already be our last . The ...
... true , that death often gives warning of its approach several hours or days before : But the real moment in which death seizes us happens suddenly ; and when we shall seem to feel the first blow , it will already be our last . The ...
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... true , deprived of some pleasures , now that the sun withdraws its light from us so soon , and that the greatest part of our time is passed in darkness . Nevertheless , we have no cause to complain of this arrangement in nature . As the ...
... true , deprived of some pleasures , now that the sun withdraws its light from us so soon , and that the greatest part of our time is passed in darkness . Nevertheless , we have no cause to complain of this arrangement in nature . As the ...
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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...