 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 Spiritual Magazine - Sida 871869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1843 - 684 sidor
...small moss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention it to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the...contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots and leaves without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1825 - 188 sidor
...eye contemplated, he, for a time, forgot his own painful situation". Does not that Being, thought he, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...obscure part of the world — a thing which appears of such small importance, look with compassion upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 sidor
...fructuation, irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the...of my fingers, i could not contemplate the delicate formation, of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I,) who planted,... | |
 | 1826 - 576 sidor
...beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught his eye." " And I could not," he adds, " contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots,...capsula, without admiration. Can that Being," thought he, " who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which... | |
 | George Johnston - 1829 - 636 sidor
...fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this, to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for, though the...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | 1830 - 612 sidor
...and perish. At this moment the extraordinary beauty of a smalt moss irresistibly caught his eye, and, though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of his fingers, he could not contemplate the delicate formation of its leaves and capsules without admiration.... | |
 | 1832 - 440 sidor
...irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this, he adds, to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation , for though the whole plant was not larger than one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula.... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1833 - 284 sidor
...and perish. At this moment the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye; and, though the whole plant was not larger than the top...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsules, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | 1833 - 310 sidor
...irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometime; derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was...could not contemplate the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can thai Beinj (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought... | |
 | 1833 - 814 sidor
...mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation j for though the whole plant was not larger than the...could not contemplate the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought... | |
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