| 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,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament ; that within and beneath all that minuteness which the aided eye... | |
| Arminianism - 1848 - 726 pages
...insignificance of the world I tread upon : the other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells ine that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is visible... | |
| 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 with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament." A third prejudice, very common, among Bible-readers is this,... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 298 pages
...of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 292 pages
...of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 294 pages
...of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyond 112 and above all that... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 670 pages
...of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me, that in the leaves of every forest,...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
...tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance; for it tells me that in the leaves'of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1818 - 530 pages
...of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest,...there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyond and above all that is... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 398 pages
...insignificance ; for it tolls me that in the leaves of every forest, ai.d in the ftowers- of 7every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament. The one has suggested to me, that beyead and above all that is... | |
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