The contemplative philosopher, or, Short essays on the various objects of nature throughout the year Volume 2; with poetical illustrations, and moral reflections on each subject - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... course, and at last disembogue, sometimes iriseveral mouths, into the sea. But, not to be too diffusivej I shall conclude, with observing, that these stupendous masses are not, as some have supposed, mere incumbrances of the creation, or rude and useless excrescences of the globe, but in a variety of instances, add greatly to its beauty, and answer many excellent purposes. In a word, when we contemplate the mountains among the other innumerable displays of the goodness, wisdom, and omnipotence of the Universal Creator, well may we exclaim with the prophet Habakkuk, ' The everlasting mountains were scattered--His ways are everlasting C or in the sublime personification of the Psalmist, 'Mountains and alt hills--praise the name of the Lord; for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.' No. LXXVIII. THE CONCLUSION. The whole up-tracing, from the dreary void, The chain of causes and effects, to Him, The world-producing Essence, who alone Possesses being. Thomson. IN the conduct of the Contemplative Philosopher, of which this number is the conclusion, I have wandered into some of the most fertile regions of philosophical discussion, and collected a variety of the wonderful phenomena of Nature, as rational subjects of curiosity and investigation. My young readers, in particular, I have endeavoured to allure to these improving inquiries, by strewing, as it were, each winding path with flowers, showing, at the same time, how much some of the finest passages in poetry are indebted, for their beauty, to the gay and lively, or to the sublime, and even terrific images, which are every where so profusely scattered. But I have deemed this a consideration of infinitely less moment, than that of inculcating the principles of piety and virtue,...
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