... 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 capsula. 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 o' so small importance, look with unconcern on the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after... | |
| 1833 - 814 pages
...the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) s experienced amongst ourselves. But it is forgotten,...Christianity, was the animating spirit of all our p look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image > Surely... | |
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...were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss 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 ? Surely... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 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 on the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? — Surely... | |
| Charles Williams - Botany - 1833 - 300 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsules, 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 ? Reflections... | |
| Charles Williams - Botany - 1833 - 284 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsules, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing whijh appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures... | |
| 1837 - 684 pages
...delicate conformation t,f 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 1 —... | |
| Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 308 pages
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| H. B. - Africa, West - 1835 - 334 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? —... | |
| Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 538 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and fruit, without admiration. Can k 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... | |
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