 ... 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
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 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... | |
 | Charles John Andersson - Africa, Southern - 1856 - 612 pages
...himself down to die, he discovered at his side a beautiful little moss, and exclaimed—" Can that Being who planted, watered, and brought to perfection...world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of a creature formed after his oAvn image ?—Surely... | |
 | Charles John Andersson - Africa, Southern - 1856 - 560 pages
...thrown himself down to die, he discovered at his side a beautiful little moss, and exclaimed, " Can that Being who planted, watered, and brought to perfection...world a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of a creature formed after his own image *? Surely... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1878 - 364 pages
...the delicate conformation of the roots, leaves, &c., 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... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots and leavei 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... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 330 pages
...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 uncon245 cern upon the situation and suffering of creatures formed after His own image ?... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 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 ? —... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this remote part of the 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... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this remote part of the 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... | |
 | Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...of its root" 214 BOOKS OF TRAVEL. 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... | |
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