| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 pagina’s
...In a spring noon, or a summer's evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy heings crowd upon my view. 'The insect youth are on the wing.'...the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, then- gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy,... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - 498 pagina’s
...NOR is the design abortive. It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer...insect youth are on the wing." Swarms of new-born Jlies are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous... | |
| John Bird Sumner - 1818 - 448 pagina’s
...Paley's Nat. Theol. p. 499. " It is a happy world, after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer...eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view." said, " in which, in some regions of the many-peopled globe, thousands of men, and millions of animals,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 pagina’s
...earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on which ever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd...the wing.' Swarms of new-born flies are trying their powers in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual... | |
| 1822 - 192 pagina’s
...myriads of happy beings crowd upon our view. " The insect youth are on the wing." Swarms of new born flies are trying their pinions in the air ; Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their continual change of place, apparently without use or purpose, testify their joy and the exultation... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pagina’s
...of animals a proof of the divine benevolence. — ' PALEV. THE air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon or a summer evening, on whichever side we turn our eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon our view. " The insect youth are on the wing."... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 382 pagina’s
...Nor is the design abortive. It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer...insect youth are on the wing." Swarms of new-born Jlies, are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratui*... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 424 pagina’s
...Nor is the design abortive. It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer...view. " The insect youth are on the wing." Swarms of new-born^Vs are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 pagina’s
...Paley's Nat. Theol. p. 499. " It is a happy world, after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer...eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view." at once the picture is reversed. " There is no day nor hour," it is said, " in which, in some regions... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1825 - 218 pagina’s
...prompted a Christian philosopher to say, ' the air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. On whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view.' " Any farther record of the conversation would be superfluous, and might prove tedious. It is our purpose... | |
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