 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in...sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...who has condescended to call himself the Stranger's Friend. 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 shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. " At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification, irresistibly caught my attention. I mention this, to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. 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 shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 520 pages
...who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. 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 shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - College verse - 1821 - 60 pages
...certain; and that I had no alternative but to lie down and perish At this moment painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye:—Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered and brought to perfection in this obscure part... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...extraordinary beauty of a small MOSS in fructuation, irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to shew from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes...derive consolation; for though the whole, plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, i could not contemplate the delicate formation, of its... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 430 pages
...who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in...derive consolation; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of... | |
 | Baptists - 1832 - 418 pages
...five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in...derive consolation; for, though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 452 pages
...who has condescended to call himself the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in...derive consolation; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of... | |
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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 whole plant was 
