 | American Philosophical Society - 1893 - 806 σελίδες
...that cover the whole earth, who notices the tricksy play of light and shadow, who watches the sky, " sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity," he must believe that there is in nature that which is designed to convey thoughts to the human soul... | |
 | 1847 - 584 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our... | |
 | Enoch Lewis, Samuel Rhoads - 1848 - 856 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing and purifying of it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...chastisement, or of blessing, to what is mortal, is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our... | |
 | 1850 - 590 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or blessing to what is mortal is essential."* There is nothing contracted, nothing narrow here. We look... | |
 | 1850 - 588 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heBrt, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or blessing to what is mortal is essential."* There is nothing contracted, nothing narrow here. We look... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 σελίδες
...purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful—never the same for two moments together ; almost human in...its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet... | |
 | 1852 - 644 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our... | |
 | 1853 - 394 σελίδες
...purifying it from dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, somtimes awful : never the game for two moments together ; almost human in its passions,...chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet we never attend to it — we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 σελίδες
...perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...the same for two moments together ; almost human in i's passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what... | |
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... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food, it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... 
