 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 Vegetable World - Seite 33von Charles Williams - 1833 - 260 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | C. E. Bourne - 1883 - 318 Seiten
...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,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 Seiten
...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,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | 1884 - 408 Seiten
...says he, "the extraordinary beauty of a small moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | G. Martin Tait - 1884 - 96 Seiten
...says he, " the extraordinary beauty of a small moes, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 Seiten
...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,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | 1888 - 258 Seiten
...of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye, and, though the whole plant was not larger than the tip of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, etc., without admiration. Can that Being, I thought, who planted, watered, and brought... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 Seiten
...what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole part was not larger than the top of one of my fingers,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves and capsnlar "without admiration. Can that being, thought I, who planted, "watered and brought to perfection,... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston, Charles Rathbone Low - 1890 - 548 Seiten
...fructification caught his eye. Though the whole plant was not much larger than the top of one of his fingers, he could not contemplate the delicate conformation of...and capsules without admiration. " Can that Being," he thought, " who brought this plant to perfection, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1892 - 362 Seiten
...sometimes derive consolation, for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of uiy fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula without admiration. SECiO WOMEN ENTERTAININU PAltK (p. 201). in a passage of his narrative... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 Seiten
...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,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
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