Papers on meteorology : relating especially to the climate of Britain, and to the variations of the barometer / by Luke Howard.

  • Howard, Luke, 1772-1864.
Date:
1850-1854
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Credit: Papers on meteorology : relating especially to the climate of Britain, and to the variations of the barometer / by Luke Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Plenty, I have shown, as regards our grain-crops, is dependent partly on a sufficiency of warmth on the whole year, partly on rains administered in due season. But we may have a season or two to go through, in which, though our personal comfort may be increased by dry and hot weather, the crops may not be so well fed, or the sheep so well fatted, as we would have them. But we abound in resources (through the good- ness of God to his creatures), and may cheerfully proceed to do our duty and make use of them, in reliance on the Divine Providence ; happy also if, through His grace, we have learned to feel for the distress of others, and do for them in all respects that which we would they in like circumstances should do for ourselves. This is the great lesson which many of us have yet to learn, more perfectly, to become more safely proud (in a good sense of the term) of the name of Christian. My countrymen will, I am sure, not be offended by this hint, from one now nearly of an age to be released from all public engagements ; but who finding the matter before him, and apprehend- ing a public service in it, could not well forbear the present. Tottenham, Middlesex, March 31, 1842. [The reprint of the work entitled “ A Cycle of Eighteen Years in the Seasons of Britain,” etc. terminates with the Tables which occupy the next six pages, ending with page 64.]