 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...embraces, is one of the most delightful occupations than can employ the attention of reasoning beings ; and, perhaps, none of the amusements of human life...in this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power : it occupies and elevates the mind, is inexhaustible in supply, and, while it furnishes... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...employ a rational and inquisitive mind ; and perhaps none of the amusements of human life are more dignified, than the investigation and survey of the workings and ways of Providence : it occupies and elevates the mind, is inexhaustible in supply ; and, while it furnishes meditation... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Natural history - 1831 - 326 pages
...now unnecessary. With us this bad custom is declining, and probably in time will cease altogether. IT is rather a subject of surprise, that in our general...in this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power : it occupies and elevates the minfl, is inexhaustible in supply, and, while it... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - Animals - 1831 - 330 pages
...butterflies, and the spinnings of -caterpillars ; his study, considered abstractedly from the various brandies of science which it embraces, is one! of the most...in .this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power : it occupies and elevates the mind, is inexhaustible in supply, and, while it furnishes... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...embraces, is one of the most delightful occupations that can employ the attention of reasoning beings. And perhaps none of the amusements of human life are...survey of the workings and ways of Providence in this • minid, being dismissed as the fitting employ of children .and -inferior capacities. But the natural... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pages
...embraces, is one of the most delightful occupadons that can employ the attention of reasoning beings. A.nd perhaps none of the amusements of human life...in this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power. It occupies and elevates the mind, is inexhaustible in supply, and, while it furnishes... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...embraces, is oue of the most delightful occupation that cut employ the attention of reasoning beings. And perhaps none of the amusements of human life are more satisfactory aud dignified than the investigation and survey of the workings and ways of Providence in this created... | |
 | 1836 - 284 pages
...glorious works, parent of good." None of the amusements of human life are more satisfactory and dignilied than the investigation and survey of the workings...in this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power; it occupies and elevates the mind, is inexhaustible in supply, and, while it furnishes... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...higher claims on our notice ; it leads us, as Mr. Jesse ; -» I v observes, " to investigate and survey the workings and ways of Providence in this created world of wonders : filled with his never-absent poorer, it occupies and elevates the mind, is inexhaustible in supply, and while it furnishes... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...constitute one of the most delightful occupations that can employ the attention of reasoning beings ; and, perhaps, none of the amusements of human life...investigation and survey of the " workings and ways" of the great Author of Nature, " in this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power."... | |
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And perhaps none of the amusements of human life are more satisfactory and dignified, than the investigation and survey of the workings and ways of Providence in .this created world of wonders, filled with his never-absent power : it occupies and elevates... 
