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/ page 1183 of 1205 /The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
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General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
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I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
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I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
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No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
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Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
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Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
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It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
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Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
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Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
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It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.
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The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.
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This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
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For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
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