Flowers from the Holy Land; an account of the chief plants named in Scripture1851 |
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... beautiful verses addressed to the Lily of the Valley , expresses his be- lief that it is not the flower alluded to . He writes : " Art thou that ' Lily of the field , ' Which , when the Saviour sought to shield The heart from blank ...
... beautiful verses addressed to the Lily of the Valley , expresses his be- lief that it is not the flower alluded to . He writes : " Art thou that ' Lily of the field , ' Which , when the Saviour sought to shield The heart from blank ...
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... beautiful roseate bloom in the months of March and April . The leaves are lanceolate and entire . Shaked , which is , as we have seen , supposed to be the name of the cultivated tree , and which yields the Almonds so much prized by us ...
... beautiful roseate bloom in the months of March and April . The leaves are lanceolate and entire . Shaked , which is , as we have seen , supposed to be the name of the cultivated tree , and which yields the Almonds so much prized by us ...
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... beautiful image of the patience with which our Saviour would tend and nurture the feeblest glow of the divine life in the soul of man . If it be as a candle just ignited , when the least motion in the surrounding atmosphere puts out the ...
... beautiful image of the patience with which our Saviour would tend and nurture the feeblest glow of the divine life in the soul of man . If it be as a candle just ignited , when the least motion in the surrounding atmosphere puts out the ...
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... beautiful , we should rather say splendid , " Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya Mountains , " as answering most fully to the account given in this part of Scripture . He has named the plant Andropogon Calamus aromaticus ...
... beautiful , we should rather say splendid , " Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya Mountains , " as answering most fully to the account given in this part of Scripture . He has named the plant Andropogon Calamus aromaticus ...
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... beautiful fountain ' Ain Jidy ( Engedi ) , which lies near the west coast of the Dead Sea , about midway between its northern and southern extremities . Ro- binson describes this fountain as one from which there was " bursting forth at ...
... beautiful fountain ' Ain Jidy ( Engedi ) , which lies near the west coast of the Dead Sea , about midway between its northern and southern extremities . Ro- binson describes this fountain as one from which there was " bursting forth at ...
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Page 89 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 135 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 23 - ... when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low, also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail...
Page 150 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 10 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 178 - Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greenness ? It was gone Quite under ground ; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown ; Where they together, All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown.
Page 89 - And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Page 81 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 168 - But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 152 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.