 I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Pagina 1801846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1846 - 598 pagina’s
...of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who...creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections like these, could not allow me to despair : I started up, and disregarding both hunger... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pagina’s
...of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who...creatures formed after his own image ?—surely not! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair; I started up, and disregarding both hunger and... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - 1845 - 302 pagina’s
...not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. 1 Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and...creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! ' Reflections like these would not allow me to despair. I started up, and disregarding both hunger... | |
 | J. J. Grandville, Nehemiah Cleaveland - 1849 - 778 pagina’s
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and fruit, without admiration. Can that Being (thought 1) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not. Reflections like these would not allow me to despair. I started up; and disrega"ding both hunger and... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 pagina’s
...in flower. It was not larger than the top of one of his fingers — "Can that Being," he thought, " who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...sufferings of creatures formed after his own image." The meditation restored his courage; he went on his way comforted and rejoicing, and soon arrived at... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1849 - 124 pagina’s
...the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c. without admiration. Can that Being, (I thought,) Who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pagina’s
...Whatever way I turned," he observes, in one instance, " nothing appeared but danger and difficulties. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in...watered, and brought to perfection in this obscure pert of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation... | |
 | Catherine Mary M'Nab - 1850 - 136 pagina’s
...one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate formation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who...creatures formed after His own image ? Surely not. Reflections like these would not allow me to despair. I started up, and disregarding both hunger and... | |
 | 1859 - 606 pagina’s
...caught my eye. I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of ita roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who...appears of so small importance, look with unconcern on the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 684 pagina’s
...were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye. Can that Being, thought £, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...thing which appears of so small importance, look with ua1 concern on the situation and sufferings of creafures formed after his own image ? Surely not. Reflections... | |
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