| Charles Walton Sanders - 1870 - 496 pages
...magnificence of the world we tread upon : the other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells us that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers...and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. 3. The one has suggested to us, that, beyond and above all that is visible to man, there may lie fields... | |
| John Yeats - 1871 - 498 pages
...every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon; the...for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life,... | |
| John Yeats - 1871 - 514 pages
...every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon; the...insignificance, for it tells me that in the leaves of ever)forest, in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1874 - 392 pages
...every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The...garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worldsteeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested... | |
| George Mather (Wesleyan minister.) - 1874 - 176 pages
...concealed in an atom ! What marvels the microscope opens out ! " It tells me," says Dr. Chalmers, " that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers...and numberless as are the glories of the firmament ; that within and beneath all that minuteness which the aided eye of man has been able to explore,... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and tho families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon ;...tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in tho flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life,... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...other teaches me that every grain of sand may harbour within it tribes and families. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon; the other redeems it from all that insignificance, for it tells me that in the leaves of the forest, in the flowers of the garden,... | |
| John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread on; the other redeems it from all its insignificance,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as the glories of the firmament." How excellently, then, antithesis is fitted, in the peroration of a... | |
| Peter Parley's annual - 1875 - 130 pages
...the tribes and families of busy populations ; that in the leaves of the forest, the flowers of the garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as the glories of the firmament. Every lake and pond, sea and river, is stocked with animated beings of... | |
| 1875 - 558 pages
...insignificance ; for it tells us that in the leaves of every forest, in the flowers of every garden, in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and as numberless as the stars in the firmament. The one tells us, that above and beyond all that is visible... | |
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