 | John Todd - 1882 - 996 pages
...foresight could have arrested my present sufferings. I indeed was a stranger in a strange land ; yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary bsauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what... | |
 | C. E. Bourne - 1883 - 318 pages
...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...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1883 - 628 pages
...and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At tliia moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trilling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - 1884 - 370 pages
...miles from any European settlement. Whatever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the...moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. Though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1884 - 248 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...condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1884 - 802 pages
...from the nearest European settlement. I felt 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. ' Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection,... | |
 | 1884 - 408 pages
...nearest European settlement: no wonder that his spirits began to fail him. " At this moment," says he, "the extraordinary beauty of a small moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 420 pages
...could possibly have averted ray 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... | |
 | 1888 - 258 pages
...State School, Moyston. ( Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, %th August, 1887.; "Ax 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,... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 pages
...mind gradually required its tone, " I was indeed, a stranger," he thought, " in a strange land; yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small nmss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will... | |
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At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the... 
