The senses : with numerous illustrations.

Date:
[1863]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The senses : with numerous illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CHAPTER XII. The Benevolence of God. — A Child with only one Sense. — Preparation for Eternity. Insensible must be that person who can take a rose into his hand, without adoring the Giver, as he admires his gift. What a combination is here! With form and color of beauty the most exquisite, with odors sweet, delicate, and never wearying, this flower appears adapted to all climes, and is a favorite wherever it grows. Nor is it only when arrayed in all its charms that it yields us pleasure. If we say with the poet — The leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day; we must add with him — Yet the rose has one powerful virtue to boast Above all the flowers of the field, When its leaves are all dead, and fine colors are lost, Still how sweet a perfume it will yield! The objects about which the sense of smell
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