Wild flowers of the year [by A. Pratt].Religious Tract Society, 1799 - 284 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... birds ; yea , even for the meanest . " He giveth to the beast his food , and to the young ravens which cry . " He , in preparing for their wants , knew how many of his creatures should live upon seeds : how the corn should be even the ...
... birds ; yea , even for the meanest . " He giveth to the beast his food , and to the young ravens which cry . " He , in preparing for their wants , knew how many of his creatures should live upon seeds : how the corn should be even the ...
Pagina 11
... birds of song shall find shelter , and man shall come to eat the fruits of the land ? So light is the down that fills the thistle - tuft , that the very faintest summer breeze raises its millions of feathers into the air ; and let a ...
... birds of song shall find shelter , and man shall come to eat the fruits of the land ? So light is the down that fills the thistle - tuft , that the very faintest summer breeze raises its millions of feathers into the air ; and let a ...
Pagina 15
... birds are forced to be . " - CLARE . IN the cold and frosty January , where are we to look for the wild flowers ? Their roots and seeds are safely covered by the snow , and if a bright clear sky , and a frosty air , should spread their ...
... birds are forced to be . " - CLARE . IN the cold and frosty January , where are we to look for the wild flowers ? Their roots and seeds are safely covered by the snow , and if a bright clear sky , and a frosty air , should spread their ...
Pagina 18
... bird to need any description . Its small white flowers may be seen , on richly cultivated lands , at almost any season . Our song birds , especially the tribe of finches , are much in- debted to this plant for food ; as they eat , not ...
... bird to need any description . Its small white flowers may be seen , on richly cultivated lands , at almost any season . Our song birds , especially the tribe of finches , are much in- debted to this plant for food ; as they eat , not ...
Pagina 19
... birds , the lark , is far up in the blue sky , pouring out a strain of melody from a joyful heart . But we cannot , in noticing the vegetation of January , omit the holly and the mistletoe ; for though their flowers are not now in bloom ...
... birds , the lark , is far up in the blue sky , pouring out a strain of melody from a joyful heart . But we cannot , in noticing the vegetation of January , omit the holly and the mistletoe ; for though their flowers are not now in bloom ...
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Pagina 133 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Pagina 100 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Pagina 28 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; And caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, That the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Pagina 158 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time. The autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves.
Pagina 191 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Pagina 137 - Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread...
Pagina 114 - ... and care defy. Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye: There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war; There poppies nodding, mock the hope of toil; There the blue bugloss paints the sterile soil; Hardy and high, above the slender sheaf. The slimy mallow waves her silky leaf; O'er the young shoot the charlock throws a shade, And clasping tares cling round the sickly blade; With mingled tints the rocky coasts abound. And a sad splendour vainly shines...
Pagina 10 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Pagina 93 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becomcth a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Pagina 53 - Then youthful box, which now hath grace Your houses to renew, Grown old, surrender must his place Unto the crisped yew. When yew is out, then birch comes in, And many flowers beside, Both of a fresh and fragrant kin, To honour Whitsuntide.