 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 480 pages
...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as mjr 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... | |
 | Garland - 1847 - 104 pages
...savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as iny 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... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1847 - 62 pages
...down to rest his wearied O limbs, and ponder on his destitute condition. " At this moment," he says, " 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,... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1849 - 346 pages
...recollected that no human prudence or foresight could have arrested my present sufferings. I indeed was a stranger in a strange land : yet I was still under...moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this, to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation;... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 600 pages
...prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present suf32 GENERAL CHARACTERS OF MOSSES. ferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was...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,... | |
 | Henry Butter - 1848 - 188 pages
...I reflected that no human piudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land; yet I was...reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small piece of moss irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this, to shew from what trifling circumstances... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 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...moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation... | |
 | 1846 - 598 pages
...I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was...were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in flower, caught my eye. I mention this, to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes... | |
 | J. J. Grandville, Nehemiah Cleaveland - 1849 - 778 pages
...I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was...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,... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1849 - 124 pages
...midst of a lonely desert, five hundred miles from the nearest settlement. I was a 1 Fissidens Bryoidea. stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under...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,... | |
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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... 
