Meditations and Contemplations. [With Engravings, Including a Portrait.]Booksellers, 1838 - 448 Seiten |
Inhalt
CONTENTS | 40 |
MEDITATIONS AMONG THE TOMBS | 45 |
Wisdom of meditating on our latter end | 51 |
Monument of a youth grief of the parents mitigated or aggra | 56 |
Reflection on the three preceding exits the uncertainty of life | 62 |
with regard | 68 |
Monument of a middleaged person immersed in business dis | 76 |
The profound silence | 102 |
A delightful eveningwalk the unmolested enjoyment of such | 247 |
The dewy coolness its beneficial influence on nature returns | 254 |
Dreams their unaccountable oddness many peoples waking | 278 |
The very different circumstances of mankind particularly of | 293 |
Northern lights the panic they occasion the general conflagra | 301 |
Moon opens a majestic scene how worthy our admiration | 305 |
Moon shines with derivative light Christians receive their | 308 |
scarce more lasting | 311 |
no hope | 111 |
The whole closes with a view of the present security and future | 119 |
Dews their transient brightness their refreshing nature their | 131 |
View of the country and its principal productions particularly | 137 |
Christ made and recovered upholds and actuates all address | 143 |
Fragrance of flowers its fugitive nature another motive | 149 |
Sleep its cheering nature the gift of heaven fine preparatives | 151 |
Flowers naturally inspire delight what pleasure must arise from | 156 |
All the delights of the flowery season pass away the celestial | 202 |
The bees their ingenuity their industry set an example | 207 |
Design of the wholeangelsthe visible heavensstarscomets | 233 |
CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE NIGHT | 239 |
Moon under an eclipse gazed at by multitudes the faults | 314 |
Prayer a reasonable service praise a delightful duty with | 322 |
Religion and necessary business religion and innocent plea | 329 |
The preceding observations inculcate humility | 335 |
The goodness of God diffused through the vast system of created | 356 |
The dignity of prayer and happiness of having God for our portion | 380 |
The gradual appearance of stars and progressive state of a true | 388 |
The multitude of stars especially in the galaxy the more atten | 396 |
Variety in the magnitude and splendour of the stars different | 403 |
Vast gradation in the scale of beings all are objects of the | 411 |
An unthinking view of the skies is affecting much more a rational | 417 |