On the Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ...
On the Beauties, Harmonies, And Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ...
Charles Bucke
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Climbing up the sides of the cottage, and over its roof, the vine promised in the happiness, that one female enjoyed in the society of five lovers, that the result of their united affections would be a fine cluster of grapes. On the roof sat the houseleek ; —the only genus of its order, growing in Britam. Thus in a single woodland landscape we observed objects, too familiar to awaken, in vulgar minds, the smallest reflection; and yet presenting data sufficient to excite the admiration, and to b...afBe the j«dgment> of the loftiest intellect. St. Pierre re- marked, that the history of the smallest plant tran- scended his highest powers ; and he gives, in con- firmation, a history of a strawberry, and the insects that he fimnd upon it. While Whiston inquired of Dr. Clarke, who had presented him with a volume of sermons^ how he dared to enter into subjects so fir 'bc^ad the mental research of men ; when the meanest weed, that grew in hb garden, more 118 ji Day amot^ ibe MamMim. effectually prored the existence of a DeMy, than all hb metaphysical arguments and sidMdelies.
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