| Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 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...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation, for though the whole... | |
| New reader - 1879 - 330 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... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pages
...fail me. I considered my fate as certain, and that I had no alternative but to lie down and perish. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...animals, and men stil more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest Euro pean settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention it to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes... | |
| Boys - 1880 - 362 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...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole... | |
| Joseph Henry Wythe - 1880 - 310 pages
...present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting care of that Providence who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. At that moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly... | |
| Joseph Henry Wythe - 1880 - 314 pages
...protecting care of that Providence who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. At that moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss irresistibly caught my eye, (I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...n'collections were, the extraordinary brauty of я small mope in fructification irresis'tibly canglit my eye. I mention this to shew from what trifling...sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole plaut wae not larger than the top of one of my finders, 1 i-ould not contemplate the delicate conformation... | |
| George Dana Boardman - 1881 - 372 pages
...surrounded by savage beasts and still more savage men. " My spirits," so he wrote, " began to fail me. But, at -this moment, painful as my reflections were, the...extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification caught my eye. Can that Being, thought I, who planted and watered and brought to perfection, in this... | |
| 1882 - 526 pages
...destitution and misery— he says, " I reflected that 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. / mention Ms," he says, "to show from what trifling circumstances the mind... | |
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