| Broome Lake Witts - 1859 - 108 pages
...animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole... | |
| John Hutton Balfour - 1859 - 492 pages
...could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence,...the stranger's Friend. At this moment, painful as my recollections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught... | |
| John Cargill Brough - 1859 - 432 pages
...sufferings; I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that God who has condescended to call himself the stranger's...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss caught my eye;. and though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could... | |
| Mungo Park - 1860 - 434 pages
...could possibly have averted my present sufferings. 1 was indeed a stranger in a, strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye; and though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers,... | |
| Selections - 1862 - 348 pages
...savage animals, and men^till more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for, though the... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...pos-si-bly have a-vert-ed my pres-ent suf-fer-ings. I was in-deed a strang-er in a strange land ; yet I was still un-der the pro-tect-ing eye of that Prov-i-dence...stran-ger's friend. At this mo-ment, pain-ful as my feel-ings were, the ex-traor-di-na-ry beau-ty of a small moss ir-re-sist-i-bly caught my eye. I men-tion... | |
| 1864 - 552 pages
...weary limbs and ponder on his destitute condition. He says himself, after describing his state — " At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye ; and though the whole plant was not larger than the tip of one of my fingers,... | |
| John Angell James - 1863 - 358 pages
...could possibly have averted my present sufierings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small mosg in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances... | |
| 1863 - 316 pages
...could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land ; yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as my feelings were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this,... | |
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