 | Thomas Roscoe - 1839 - 256 pages
...no other alternative, but to lie down and perish. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of... | |
 | 536 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,...were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss, in a flower, irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind... | |
 | Henry Butter - 1839 - 190 pages
...could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a stranga land; yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small piece of moss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this, to shew from what trifling circumstances... | |
 | 1839 - 428 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... | |
 | John Todd - 1839 - 416 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...the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as rny reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught... | |
 | John Kearsley Mitchell - 1839 - 228 pages
...* 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...moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. * * * Though the whole plant was not longer than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 262 pages
...present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a 1 IN AFFLICTION. 115 strange land, yet I still was under the protecting eye of that Providence who has...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 270 pages
...my prcssnt sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a IN AFFLICTION. 115 strange land, yet I still was under the protecting eye of that Providence who has...extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistib]y caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1841 - 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 who has condescended to call himself the stranger s friend. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small... | |
 | Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward - 1842 - 118 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 reflec* Kirby's ' Bridgewater Treatise.' tions were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification... | |
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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... 
