| Methodist Church - 1860 - 722 pages
...following brilliant and truthful passage : " It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which...is just the part in which we least attend to her. There is not a moment of any day of our lives when she is not producing scene after scene, picture... | |
| English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...part by a very noble passage on the sky. " It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which...is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1847 - 862 pages
...Charles fit. John, Esq. THE BEAUTY OF THE SKY. IT is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which...is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere... | |
| 1847 - 436 pages
...BEAUTY OF THE SKY. IT is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the pnrt U i @ lier works, and it. is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of -her other... | |
| 1847 - 574 pages
...-people, know about the s^v. I .Ji is 'the .part of creation in which nature has done mtoreiferjihe) s^ke of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose...teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is jtjist the part in which we least attend to her. There are not .-many- of f her, ; Other works in which... | |
| Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - Society of Friends - 1848 - 856 pages
...justly called " a very noble passage." " It is a strange thing how little, in general, people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which...is just the part in which we least attend to her. There are not many of her other works in which some more material or essential purpose than the mere... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...mag nificent chapters. OF THE OPEN SKY. " It is a strange thing how little, in general, people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man—more for the sole and uvident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him, than in any other... | |
| Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...wickedness is this ! THOUGHTS OH THE SKY. IT is A strange thing how little, in general, people know about the sky ! It is the part of creation in which...is just the part in which we least attend to her. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few. It is not intended that man should... | |
| Literature - 1852 - 644 pages
...article than in the dry season. THE SKY. — It is a strange thing how little, in general, people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which Nature 1ms done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...magnificent chapters: OF THE OPEN SKY. " It is a strange thing how little, in general, people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which...nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, in ore for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him, than in any other of her... | |
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