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Page 10
... hath given them food in due season , it is the appropriate season of thankfulness and praise . The heart bends with instinctive grati- tude before Him whose beneficence neither slum- bers nor sleeps , and who , from the throne of glory ...
... hath given them food in due season , it is the appropriate season of thankfulness and praise . The heart bends with instinctive grati- tude before Him whose beneficence neither slum- bers nor sleeps , and who , from the throne of glory ...
Page 12
... hath as uniformly attended the morning of the spring . There is no language which can speak more in- telligibly to the thoughtful mind than the language of nature ; and it is repeated to us , as it were , every year , to teach us trust ...
... hath as uniformly attended the morning of the spring . There is no language which can speak more in- telligibly to the thoughtful mind than the language of nature ; and it is repeated to us , as it were , every year , to teach us trust ...
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... hath swept ; this outstretch- es my understanding , no less than the material imagery confuses my imagination . And when I bring the picture to my heart , its feelings are overwhelmed . When I fancy this quick and con- scious frame ...
... hath swept ; this outstretch- es my understanding , no less than the material imagery confuses my imagination . And when I bring the picture to my heart , its feelings are overwhelmed . When I fancy this quick and con- scious frame ...
Page 37
... hath beheld , to seem like the gross picture with which you catch infants , and to make the Eastern tale of roman- ces , and the most rapt imagination of Eastern poets , like the ignorant prattle and rude struc- tures which first ...
... hath beheld , to seem like the gross picture with which you catch infants , and to make the Eastern tale of roman- ces , and the most rapt imagination of Eastern poets , like the ignorant prattle and rude struc- tures which first ...
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... hath hope in his death . Con- template , through the unnumbered saints that have died , the soul , the true and unextinguishable life of man , charmed away from this globe by the ce- lestial music , already respiring the gales of eter ...
... hath hope in his death . Con- template , through the unnumbered saints that have died , the soul , the true and unextinguishable life of man , charmed away from this globe by the ce- lestial music , already respiring the gales of eter ...
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