 If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd,...  Friends' Weekly Intelligencer - Page 4041870Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...convictions concerning man and man's life, with an eloquence and poetry of enthusiasm seldom surpassed. ONE says, it has been wet ; and another, it has been...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 484 pages
...of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. 6. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,3 we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena3 do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it... | |
 | John Croumbie Brown - 1877 - 676 pages
...watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity wo turn our eyes to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena...warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell one of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall moun(ains that girded the horizon at noon... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. 7. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of 'I One says it has been wet ; and another, it has been windy ; and another, it has been warm. Who,... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...accident, 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,...last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of 1 s. One says, it has been wet ; and another, it has been windy ; and another, it has been warm. Who,... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1881 - 104 pages
...it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations. ... If, in our moments of idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last...whole chattering crowd can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...arcideurs, too common and too* vain to be worthy of a mo me ui of watchfulness or a glance of i»dminiikm. If. in our moments of utter idleness and Insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, wbich of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it hue born wet. nnd Another it h :is been windy, and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...is in these that the lesson of devotion is chiefly taught. For instance: 'If in our moments of ntter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday? Who... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pages
...ordinarily little noticed. It is in these that the lesson of devotion is chiefly taught. For instance: ' If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday? Who... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 pages
...accident, 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,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that gilded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who... | |
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