| George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...atom ! What marvels the microscope opens out ! " It tells me/' says Dr. Chalmers, " that in the leavas of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden,...and numberless as are the glories of the firmament ; that within and beneath all that minuteness which the aided eye of man has been able to explore,... | |
| Arminianism - 1848 - 726 pages
...grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon :...redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells ine that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every... | |
| 1842 - 612 pages
...the whale. " In the leaves of every forest," says Dr. Chalmers, " in the flowers of every garden ; in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming...and numberless as are the glories of the firmament." A third prejudice, very common, among Bible-readers is this, " That no concession to popular opinion... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 294 pages
...grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The...firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyond 112 and above all that is visible to man, there may lie fields of creation which sweep immeasurably... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 670 pages
...grain of sand mar harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The...every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and nuinhcilrss asare tliB clones of the firmament The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 290 pages
...grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The...all its insignificance; for it tells me that in the leaves'of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 398 pages
...grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes ami the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The...other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tolls me that in the leaves of every forest, ai.d in the ftowers- of 7every garden, and in the waters... | |
| Phrenology - 1829 - 686 pages
...families of a busy ' population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I ' tread on ; the other redeems it from all its insignificance;...with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firma" ment. The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all " that is visible to man, there... | |
| Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I treed upon ; the other redeems it from all its insignificance;...tells me, that in the leaves of every forest, and in île flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life,... | |
| 1833 - 310 pages
...grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon ;...forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in tue waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as arc the glories... | |
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