 | 1833 - 814 pages
...USEFULNESS OF INSECTS. -- " Each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the place of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost, Would...leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue." - STILLING FLEET. in general are too apt to look upon insects as being not merely useless, but positively... | |
 | William Carpenter - Nature in the Bible - 1833 - 420 pages
...trifling as some of these minute or imperceptible objects may appear, the language of philosophy is — ' Each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of HIM who framed Thia scale of beings ; IK, Ids a rank, which, lost, Would break the chain, and leave a gap That... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 270 pages
...rank Important in the place of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost, \Vould break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue." — — STILLIXGFLECT. PK.OPLE in general are too apt to look upon insects as being not merely useless,... | |
 | Henry William Dewhurst - Cetacea - 1834 - 378 pages
...relish of their souls." only conclusion ; first, that they all equally proclaim the existence of a God, for " Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who form'd This scale of beings, holds a rank which lost, Would break the chain, and leave a gap Which... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834 - 1028 pages
...of the Divinity, in their creation." Or, in the more harmonious periods of the poet, we would say, " Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important, in the plan of him who framed This scale of beings;" Shells appear to form a part of the creation not immediately subservient... | |
 | John Warren - Mollusks - 1834 - 262 pages
...adhering to other Bodies. 35. TEREDO: Shell thin penetrating wood. INTRODUCTION CONCHOL.OOY. Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank, Important in the plan of HIM, who framed This scale of beings. Slillingflert. form a link in the great chain of nature, worthy the researches... | |
 | Children - 1834 - 238 pages
...uninterrupted chain : Each shell, each crawlingMnsect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him, who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost, Would break the chain, and leave a gap behind Which nature's self would rue. From the cpntemplation of the boundless variety of nature,... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - Insects - 1835 - 332 pages
...animal, small, it is true, but whose animal existence in the winged state at that inclement season is probably of more consequence in the intricacy of...insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost, Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1835 - 352 pages
...may probably live to be the subject of another memoir in some succeeding century. - ' each moss, ' Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank ' Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd ' Ths scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost ' Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap '... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...shed down Their kindly influence; not these alone, Which strike ev'n eyes incurious; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings; holds a rank, which lost, Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap... | |
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Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would... 
