| 1847 - 584 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to...too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn... | |
| 1847 - 574 pages
...bears witness to the ' i intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive more from tbecoweV'l'ing vault than the light and the dew which we share with...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment 9^ ;. ; watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,... | |
| Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to...too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to...meaningless and monotonous accident, too common and too painful to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of... | |
| 1852 - 644 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations. We look upon all by which it speaks to...from the covering vault than the light and the dew that we share with the weed and the worm, only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accident,... | |
| 1853 - 394 pages
...subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ! We look upon all by which the sky speaks to us, more clearly than to brutes— upon all which bears witness to the invention of the Supreme — that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations; we look upon all by which it speaks to...too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter VOL. II. 2 A idleness and insipidity,... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to...the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive from the covering vault, than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm, only... | |
| 1853 - 442 pages
...yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon nil which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive from the covering vault,... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pages
...it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all which bears witness to the intention of the...only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration.... | |
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