 ... 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 capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 681927Full view - About this book
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...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsul.i 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 of^so small importance, look with iiBcoucern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed... | |
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...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with apparent unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image... | |
 | Mungo Park, James Rennell - Africa - 1799 - 524 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? —... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? —... | |
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 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 207 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. " Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 372 pages
...leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought Q to perfection,' in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern, \zpon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after Ms own image ? —... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1815 - 428 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted,watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? —... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - College verse - 1821 - 60 pages
...extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye:—Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered and brought to perfection in...world a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern on the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image. This reflection... | |
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