 ... 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
 | Children's literature - 1848 - 800 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 ? Reflections... | |
 | 1843
...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? Surely... | |
 | Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward - Growth (Plants). - 1842 - 118 pages
...delicate conformation of its roots, leaves and capsules, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in...obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsules, without admiration! 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 suffermgs of creatures formed after his own image? Surely... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 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 Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 292 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... | |
 | 1846 - 544 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 upon the situation of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1846 - 610 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... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - Sermons, English - 1846 - 640 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 Ihe situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image f Surely... | |
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