Sacred philosophy of the seasons: Illustrating the perfections of god in the phenomena of the pfearW. Oliphant and Son, 1837 |
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... delightful , especially in the early part of this quarter of the year , as it is painted . In Greece and Rome , indeed , which were the birth - places and nurseries of European poetry , the temperature of the air , the pure blue of the ...
... delightful , especially in the early part of this quarter of the year , as it is painted . In Greece and Rome , indeed , which were the birth - places and nurseries of European poetry , the temperature of the air , the pure blue of the ...
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... delight the ear ; while the wren , the red- breast , the titmouse , and the hedge - sparrow , flutter from spray to spray , and utter their varied notes of gladness , as the sun sheds his warmer rays on wood and field , giving the ...
... delight the ear ; while the wren , the red- breast , the titmouse , and the hedge - sparrow , flutter from spray to spray , and utter their varied notes of gladness , as the sun sheds his warmer rays on wood and field , giving the ...
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... delight at the silent and marvellous change produced in the general aspect of Nature ; and we then naturally seek to con- template the causes of such a universal transition . By what agency , we ask , does the vegetable world suddenly ...
... delight at the silent and marvellous change produced in the general aspect of Nature ; and we then naturally seek to con- template the causes of such a universal transition . By what agency , we ask , does the vegetable world suddenly ...
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... delights that intervene be- tween the appearance of the earliest sprout and the full glories of summer vegetation ; and hence the marvellous diversity of aspect , assumed by the vegetable world be- tween the equator and the poles . What ...
... delights that intervene be- tween the appearance of the earliest sprout and the full glories of summer vegetation ; and hence the marvellous diversity of aspect , assumed by the vegetable world be- tween the equator and the poles . What ...
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... delights of vision . The rays of colour , taking them in the order of their refrangibility , and begin- ning with the most refrangible , are violet , indigo , blue , green , yellow , orange , and red . One body absorbs all the rays but ...
... delights of vision . The rays of colour , taking them in the order of their refrangibility , and begin- ning with the most refrangible , are violet , indigo , blue , green , yellow , orange , and red . One body absorbs all the rays but ...
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