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... flock to the warm stubble for shelter . Fieldfares , redwings , skylarks , and titlarks find gnats and other food in water - meadows . The titmouse may be seen pulling straw out of the thatch , and grey and pied wagtails flying round ...
... flock to the warm stubble for shelter . Fieldfares , redwings , skylarks , and titlarks find gnats and other food in water - meadows . The titmouse may be seen pulling straw out of the thatch , and grey and pied wagtails flying round ...
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... flock together before leaving this country . Young partridges are found among the corn . The poultry moult , or change their feathers ; but smaller birds , such as sparrows , linnets , & c . do not lose their plumage so soon . In this ...
... flock together before leaving this country . Young partridges are found among the corn . The poultry moult , or change their feathers ; but smaller birds , such as sparrows , linnets , & c . do not lose their plumage so soon . In this ...
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... flocks ; and the red breast is heard towards the end of the month . Insects still continue to swarm flies , moths , beetles , crickets , and glow - worms are numerous ; grasshoppers , locusts , and some splendid but- terflies are to be ...
... flocks ; and the red breast is heard towards the end of the month . Insects still continue to swarm flies , moths , beetles , crickets , and glow - worms are numerous ; grasshoppers , locusts , and some splendid but- terflies are to be ...
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... flocks of birds , such as sparrows , linnets , and larks , may be seen flying from field to field . The wood - owl hoots and shouts ; and the blackbird , wood - lark , thrush , and redbreast are our chief songsters . Among the insects ...
... flocks of birds , such as sparrows , linnets , and larks , may be seen flying from field to field . The wood - owl hoots and shouts ; and the blackbird , wood - lark , thrush , and redbreast are our chief songsters . Among the insects ...
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... flocks of water - fowl appear in low marshy grounds , and are caught in decoys , & c . About the middle of the month wild - geese leave the fens , and go to the rye - lands to devour the young corn . Rooks sport and congregate in ...
... flocks of water - fowl appear in low marshy grounds , and are caught in decoys , & c . About the middle of the month wild - geese leave the fens , and go to the rye - lands to devour the young corn . Rooks sport and congregate in ...
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Page 219 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of Heaven.
Page 220 - The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.
Page 222 - Abide with me from morn till eve, for without thee I cannot live; abide with me when night is nigh, for without thee I dare not die.
Page 217 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 82 - SON JESUS CHRIST, hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life ; we humbly beseech Thee, that, as by Thy special grace preventing us, Thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by Thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect...
Page 71 - For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 223 - GOD, that madest earth and heaven, Darkness and light ; Who the day for toil hast given, For rest the night ; May Thine Angel-guards defend us, Slumber sweet Thy mercy send us, Holy dreams and hopes attend us, This livelong night...
Page 222 - Come near and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take ; Till in the ocean of Thy love We lose ourselves in Heaven above.
Page 159 - The rest it seeks, in seeking dies, And doubts at last, for knowledge, rise. Lovely, lasting peace, appear ; This world itself, if thou art here, Is once again with Eden blest, And man contains it in his breast.
Page 81 - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.