| Sir Joseph Paxton - 1838 - 404 Seiten
...delicate texture and admirable structure and markings of this lovely, flower, but will acknowledge that " Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is GOD. — Not a flower But «hows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He... | |
| 1838 - 444 Seiten
...passages in proof of the objection we have advanced. The first is from the Fourth Book of Lessons, p. 73. Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God. One spirit— His Who wore the plaited thorns with bleeding brows, Rules universal Nature ! The other... | |
| M. S. - 1839 - 194 Seiten
...with him. It is in small things that brotherly kindness and cbarity consist. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the sacred fire By which the mighty process is maintain'd ; Who sleeps not, is not weary :... | |
| 1840 - 272 Seiten
...bright, and the beautiful effects of hoarfrost are often sufficient to give animation to a landscape, which would otherwise look blank and dreary. Every...in the vast or in the minute, is equally faultless in performance, inexhaustible in resource, infinite in variety, and unwearied in operation. The examination... | |
| William Wilberforce - 1840 - 558 Seiten
...admiration of the beauties of nature (remembering at the same time the words of my favourite poet : " Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God,") as if I were two hundred miles from the great city. My parliamentary duties force me to be within easy... | |
| Nathan Sidney Smith Beman - 1840 - 788 Seiten
...for ever. The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire By which the mighty process is maintained, Who sleeps not, is not weary ;... | |
| David Hoffman - 1841 - 382 Seiten
...of what is called nature — on these he dwells with rapture, but, perhaps, without once reflecting that 'Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.' When we raise our eyes to the spangled vault of heaven, and behold myriads of shining spheres — when... | |
| Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 Seiten
...the next. The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. One spirit—His, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows, Rules universal nature. Not a flower... | |
| 1841 - 534 Seiten
...philosopher and the scholar into the homes of wisdom and science. We echo the lines of Cowper:— " Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire By which the mighty process is maintained ; Who sleeps not, is not weary;... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 Seiten
...? 220 The Lord of all, himself through all dift'us'd, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire, By which the mighty process is maintain'd, 225 Who sleeps not, is not weary... | |
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