 | John Todd - 1839 - 416 trang
...recollected that no human prudence or foresight could have arrested my present sufferings. I indeed was a stranger in a strange land ; yet I was still under...the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as rny reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught... | |
 | 1839 - 428 trang
...animals, and men still more savage. I was five hundred miles from the nearest European settlement. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the...fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for, though the... | |
 | John Kearsley Mitchell - 1839 - 228 trang
...* I considered my fate as certain, and that I had no alternative, but to lie down and perish. * * * At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the...moss, in fructification, irresistibly caught my eye. * * * Though the whole plant was not longer than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate... | |
 | Henry Butter - 1839 - 190 trang
...die. The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a stranga land; yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence who has condescended to call... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 270 trang
...my prcssnt sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a IN AFFLICTION. 115 strange land, yet I still was under the protecting eye of that Providence who has...extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistib]y caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1840 - 262 trang
...perish'. The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a 1 IN AFFLICTION. 115 strange land, yet I still was under the protecting eye of that Providence who... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 trang
...perish. The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I •was indeed a stranger in a strungland, yet I was still under the pro tecting eye of that Providence, wb has condescended to call... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1841 - 316 trang
...perish. The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present...Providence who has condescended to call himself the stranger s friend. At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small... | |
 | Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward - 1842 - 118 trang
...perish. The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present...the stranger's friend. At this moment, painful as my reflec* Kirby's ' Bridgewater Treatise.' tions were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification... | |
 | 1843
...perish. The influence of religion, however, aiJed and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present...sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land; yet I No. xxx. was still under the protecting eye of that Providence who has condescended to call Himself... | |
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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 show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the... 
