 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...  Eclectic and Congregational Review - Page 6311855Full view - About this book
 | Who - 1869 - 72 pages
...unintelligible, have, nevertheless, their proper place in the grand scheme of the universe. ' 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... | |
 | 1869 - 634 pages
...Cronicle» possessed by AMS is no doubt the Glasgow edition of 1749.] QUOTATIONS : — " 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... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - 1871 - 488 pages
..."Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the scale 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." Very interesting is the study of those curious inhabitants... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Victor Meunier - 1872 - 344 pages
...approximation to the types of piscine life that now prevail. BOOK V.-ARTICULATED ANIMALS. " 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... | |
 | Ralph Richardson (M.D.) - 1873 - 134 pages
...the doctrine of a graduated scale of bodies, and who does not hesitate to inculcate that " 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... | |
 | William Whalley - 1874 - 144 pages
...still more remarkable anomaly, namely, that of actually carrying its eyes in its tail. " 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... | |
 | 1874 - 82 pages
....-• WHO WERE THE FIRST WEAVERS? BRUCE AND THE SPIDER WHO WERE THE FIRST WEAVERS? " Each mou, Kach shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of HIM who lYaoiod This scale of beingi " LONDON: T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.... | |
 | William Whalley - 1874 - 152 pages
...remarkable anomaly, namely, that of actually carrying its eyes in its tail. "each moss, Kueli shell, eaeh crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would hreak the chain, and leave hehind a gap... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1877 - 270 pages
...he went in, and was clothed with garments such as they." — Pilgrim's Progress. 143. " Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important...leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue." Stillingjleet. " The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends,... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1877 - 422 pages
...bodies than the two forelegs, projecting outwards towards their nets. ECONOMY OF NATURE. ' 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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