 At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 3731840Full view - About this book
 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole was not larger than the top of one of my fingers,...thing which appears of so small importance, look with apparent unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely... | |
 | 1799 - 516 pages
...trifling circuraftances the mind will fometifms derive confolation ; for though the whole plant was nut larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could...the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves and capfula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | 1799 - 746 pages
...what trifling circumftances the mind will fometimes derive confolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the drlicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capfula, without admiration. Can that bring (thought... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 418 pages
...what trifling circumtUnces the mind will fometinus derive confolatiun ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers,...contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaven, and caplula, without admiration. Can that Being {thought 1) who planted, watered, and brought... | |
 | Missions - 1807 - 672 pages
...of my finger*, I could not contemplate tlic delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsul.i without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought (o perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of^so small importance, look... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...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,...without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted,watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears... | |
 | John Leyden, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1817 - 552 pages
...conformation of the roof, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. He then thought — Can the Being who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...part of the world, a thing which appears of so small im portauce, look with unconcern on the situation and sufferings of beings formed after his own image... | |
 | John Cole - 1821 - 78 pages
...perish, a beautiful 33 moss accidentally caught his eye. The reflection occurred :— "Surely that Being who planted, watered and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, so minute and apparently insignificant a flower, cannot look with unconcern upon the situation and... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...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,...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 - Africa - 1825 - 188 pages
...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... | |
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