... 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
| George Luxford, Edward Newman - Botany - 1846 - 388 pages
...the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (I thought) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 480 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, 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... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 282 pages
...conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being) thought I, who plant,d, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? Surelj... | |
| Garland - 1847 - 104 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appeara of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures... | |
| William Gardiner - Botany - 1847 - 62 pages
...the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., without admiration. Can that Being (I thought) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - Plant anatomy - 1848 - 600 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and fruit, 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... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule, 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... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 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... | |
| Henry Butter - Readers - 1848 - 188 pages
...not contemplate the delicate structure of its parts without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a tiling that appears of so small importance, look with unconcern on the situation and sufferings of... | |
| J. J. Grandville, Nehemiah Cleaveland - Botany - 1849 - 778 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and fruit, without admiration. Can that Being (thought 1) 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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