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
| William Gardiner - 1847 - 62 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, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (I thought) who planted, watered, and brought... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 Seiten
...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,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 600 Seiten
...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small Moss irresistibly caught my eye; and though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and fruit, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 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, I could uot contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can... | |
| J. J. Grandville, Nehemiah Cleaveland - 1849 - 778 Seiten
...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small Moss irresistibly caught my eye ; and though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers,...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and fruit, without admiration. Can that Being (thought 1) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
| 1846 - 598 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,...could not contemplate the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 Seiten
...the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the tip of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
| 1856 - 666 Seiten
...mind will sometimes derive consolation ; ! for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of j one of my fingers, 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... | |
| Charles Alexander Johns - 1849 - 124 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, &c. without admiration. Can that Being, (I thought,) Who planted, watered, and brought... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1849 - 576 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, 1 could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration.... | |
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