Reflections for Every Day in the Year: On the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature. From the German of Mr. C.C. Sturm |
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Page 28 - The eyes of all wait upon thee ; And thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, And satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 67 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor...
Page 169 - For all flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 67 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Page 41 - Man that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one.
Page 46 - I Will magnify thee, O God, my King ; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever.
Page 97 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee...
Page 21 - ... and hind part of the head. Towards the end of the fourth day, the two auricles, already visible, draw nearer to the heart than they did before.
Page 277 - In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 21 - ... it evidently moves itself. — The feathers begin to shoot out towards the 240th hour, and the skull becomes gristly. At the 264th the eyes appear. At the 288th, the ribs are perfect. At the 331st, the spleen draws near to the stomach, and the lungs to the chest.
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| Title | Reflections for Every Day in the Year: On the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature. From the German of Mr. C.C. Sturm Volume 2 of Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature, Christoph Christian Sturm |
| Author | Christoph Christian Sturm |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | D. Shaw and Company, 1800 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Apr 2008 |
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