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.

The Seventh Edition.

VOLUME II.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by D. Schaw and Co. Riddell's Close;

FOR N. R. CHEYNE, ST. ANDREW'S STREET; SOLD BY F. & C. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

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Continual revolutions and changes in the earth,

An invitation to seek God in the works of nature, 8

53

Spring an emblem of the frailty of human life and

an image of death,

56

Spring an emblem of the resurrection,

58

The attractive power of bodies,

60

Complaints of mankind relative to certain inconve-

niences in the laws of nature,

63

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CONTENTS.

Page

Sins we are apt to commit in spring,

The harmony and patriotism among the bees,

66

69

The prodigious number of plants on the earth,

71

Plurality of worlds,

73

Difference between the works of nature and those

Immensity of the firmament,

Singularities in the vegetable kingdom,

Means of happiness which we find in nature,

The loadstone,

97

99

103

105

Exterior parts of plants,

119

The nightingale,

Hymn of thanksgiving for the works of the creation, 122

The pleasures which summer affords to our senses, 132.

A sketch of the inward parts of the human body, 133

124

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129

Page

The rainbow,

The birds nests,

The many enjoyments we find in nature,

Reflections on a flower garden,

159

160

163

166

Description of the common phenomena of a storm, 168

The ant,

The hail,

:

Use of storms,

The earth, and its original constitution,

On the phases of the moon,

Mineral waters,

The continual activity of nature in the vegetable

kingdom

The beauty and use of meadows and fields,

The morning twilight,

Evening twilight,

The ephemeral fly,

Nothing perishes in nature,

Difference of zones,

171

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200

Means of subsistence which nature affords to animals, 224

Comparison between the senses of men and animals, 242