| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who...came to a small village, at the entrance of which 1 Our own Ledyard, who possessed ev*?ry qualification of u traveller of tho highest order, thuH f-|n-;tk,-... | |
| John Angell James - Conduct of life - 1871 - 216 pages
...small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and suffering of creatures formed after K own image ? — surely not ! Reflections like these...overtook the two shepherds who had come with me from Koama. They were much surprised to see me : for they said, they never doubted that the Foulahs, when... | |
| Thomas Milner - Australia - 1872 - 684 pages
...surely not ! Reflections like these would not allow me to despair. I started up, and, disregarding hoth hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that...relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed.' Park came back safely to the limits of civilisation, having accomplished the distance of 2200 miles,... | |
| John Richardson Phillips - Providence (R.I.) - 1876 - 420 pages
...not allow me to despair. I started up and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forward, assured that relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed. In a short time I came to a small village." In the military prison at Aldershot, God struck a liar dumb ; and so, providentially supplied a warning,... | |
| Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1878 - 364 pages
...and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image ? Surely not ! Reflections like these could not allow me to despair : I started up, and disregarding...disappointed — in a short time I came to a small village.' Many passages might we quote from poets and other writers in reference to the tiny mosses, but we must... | |
| Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 pages
...of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsule without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who...overtook the two shepherds who had come with me from Eooma. They were much surprised to see me, for they said they never doubted that the Poulahs, when... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this remote part of the world, a thing which appears of so small...travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand.' Mungo Park (1771-1805). And he was not disappointed, for shortly afterwards he reached a village where... | |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson - Commonplace-books - 1879 - 254 pages
...admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this remote part of the world, a thing which appears of so small...travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand.' Mungo Park (1771-1805). And he was not disappointed, for shortly afterwards he reached a village where... | |
| Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...situation and sufferings of creatures formed after His own image ? Surely not. Reflections like those would not allow me to despair. I started up, and,...that relief was at hand; and I was not disappointed." Besides these travellers, the boy will hang delighted over the narrative of Belzoni's discoveries in... | |
| 1882 - 526 pages
...top of my finger, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its root, leaves, and capsule, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who...disappointed. In a short time I came to a small village, where I overtook the two shepherds who had come with me from Kruman." Henry Martvn, in a well-known... | |
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