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templating the regular confusion, the intricate harmony of the 

 scenes that rise before him : 



These, ai they change, Almighty Father ! these 

 Are but the varied God; The rolling year 

 Iifullofthee. 



To the systematic arrangements of Moses and Solomon we have 

 already adverted, in the introductory section to this volume ; we 

 shall here merely add, in the words of Mr. Charles Taylor, that no 

 clearer proofs of system can be produced from any writer whatev- 

 er, than are exhibted in Gen. i. 11, 12, and 1 Kings iv. 33. There 

 is a uniform progress from a lesser to a larger ; from * grass/ in- 

 cluding the minutest species of whatever is green, to ' shrubs, 7 which 

 are apparently taken for trees of the smaller kinds ; and from these 

 to ' trees,' which not only differ by their enlarged dimensions, but 

 by their permanency also 



