 | William Dell Hartman, Ezra Michener - 1874 - 128 pages
...whose wisdom planned, and whose power created, all those evidences of His omnipotence. To his mind, " Each moss, each shell, Each crawling insect, holds a rank, Important in the plans of Him Who fram'd their being." — Stillingfleet. DIAGRAM OF THE HIGHER DIVISIONS REPRESENTED... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1877 - 422 pages
...of their bodies than the two forelegs, projecting outwards towards their nets. ECONOMY OF NATURE. ' each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him, who framed This scale of beings; holds a rank, which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap... | |
 | Wonders - 1878 - 172 pages
...rolling spheres, that from on high shed down Their kindly influence ; nor these alone, Which strike e'en eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the scale of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost, Would break the chain, and... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - 1878 - 214 pages
...roses and lilies that blossom sweet and fair in the sunshine ; all things about reminding us that " each moss, each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank important in the scale of Him who framed this scale of beings," a truth we should never forget while we marvel. There... | |
 | Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club - 1878 - 386 pages
...development — the theory of their springing from second causes — the whole seems to form one chain : " Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings : holds a rank which lost Would break the chain and leave behind a gap... | |
 | James Crowther - 1882 - 204 pages
...liberally given to " any of you" that may ask it, and 'you will find with the poet Tennyson that ' ' Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which, lost, Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap... | |
 | William Forsell Kirby - 1883 - 232 pages
...able to form a correct idea of the whole. One of our poets lias expressed this idea as follows : • " Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings, holds a rank, which lost, Would break the chain, and leave a gap between... | |
 | J. Wesley Van Dervoort - 1886 - 530 pages
...revealed by the microscope is governed by the same laws that regulate the highest objects in creation ! "Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the scale of Him who framed This scale of beings; holds a rank which, lost, Would break the chain, and... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...or vermilion, some with a gilded green or dazzling silver lustre — play around the coral bushes. Each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which, lost, Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...wisdom, hast Thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches. Ptalme civ, 24. ECONOMY IN. Eacn moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which, lost, Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap... | |
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Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would... 
