 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 sider
...feast without a welcome ; they are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his fellow-creatures ; for they first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and good. CHAPTER ON FLOWERS. THAT delicate field flower, With scented... | |
 | 1832 - 428 sider
...flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations Of man's love to his...strength, man cannot gaze ; he can comprehend it best when pristnatically separated and dispersed in the many-coloured beauty of flowers ; and thus he reads the... | |
 | 1832 - 780 sider
...the creation, and they are the means and mi nisi rations of man's love to hi< fellow-f rent 11 res; for they first awaken in the mind a sense of the beautiful...strength, man cannot gaze ; he can comprehend it best iv hen prismaticaUy separated, nnd dispersed in the many-coloured beauty ot flowers; and thus he reads... | |
 | 1832 - 424 sider
...flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his fellow-creatures; for they first awaken in the nilinl a sense of the beautiful and the good. — Light is beautiful and good ; but on its undivided... | |
 | 1835 - 510 sider
...flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his...when prismatically separated, and dispersed in the many-colored beauty of flowers; and thus he reads the elements of beauty, the alphabet of visible gracefulness.... | |
 | 1842 - 284 sider
...flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation ; and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his fellow-creatures, for they first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and the good. The very inutility of flowers is their excellence and... | |
 | 1852 - 432 sider
...flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his fellow-creatures; for they first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and the good . . . The very inutility of flowers is their excellence... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 sider
...the structure of a flower without loving it. They are emblems of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his fellow-creatures ; for they first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and good. They lead us to thoughts of generosity and moral beauty,... | |
 | Ann Amelia Searle - 1866 - 116 sider
...flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his...in the mind a sense of the beautiful and the good." — CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. How sweetly is God's love to man Expressed in Nature's face, The Passion-flower... | |
 | 1884 - 794 sider
...earth. Gail Hamilton. Flowers are the emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his...first awaken in the mind a sense of the beautiful and good. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Holmes. Consequences are unpitying.... | |
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One cannot look closely at the structure of a flower without loving it. They are emblems and manifestations of God's love to the creation, and they are the means and ministrations of man's love to his fellow-creatures ; for they first awaken in the mind... 
