 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...ideas of the incomprehensible first cause still more exalted, the more minutely I examine his works. ' I sometimes smile to think that while others are immersed...collecting, without injuring my conscience, or wounding my pence of mind, those beautiful specimens of Nature's works, that are forever pleasing. I have had live... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...collection of all our finest birds." And in a letter to Bartram, written about this time, he says finely, " I sometimes smile to think, that while others are immersed in deep schemes of vol.. n. 10 speculation and aggrandizement, in building towns and purchasing plantations, I am entranced... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...collection of all our finest birds." And in a letter to Bartram, written about this time, he says finely, " I sometimes smile to think, that while others are immersed in deep schemes of VOL. n. 10 speculation and aggrandizement, in building towns and purchasing plantations, I am entranced... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1861 - 372 pages
...sometimes smile to think, that while others arc immersed in deep schemes of speculation and aggrandisement, in building towns and purchasing plantations, I am...the power of enjoying it, I am collecting, without injuringmy conscience or wounding my peace of mind, those beautiful specimens of nature's works that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...ideas of the incomprehensible First Cause still more exalted, the more minntely I examine His works. I sometimes smile to think that while others are immersed...lineaments of an owl. While others are hoarding up their hags of money, withont the power of enjoying it, I am collecting, withont injuring my conscience, or... | |
 | James Hogg - Biography - 1859 - 346 pages
...his employments at this period are beautifully described in a letter to his friend Bartram : — " I' sometimes smile to think, that while others are immersed in deep schemes of speculation and aggrandisement, in building towns and purchasing plantations, I am entranced in contemplation over... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Ornithologists - 1861 - 200 pages
...others are immerfed in deep fchemes of fpeculation and aggrandizement, in building towns and purchafing plantations, I am entranced in contemplation over the plumage of a lark, or gazing, like a defpairing lover, on the lineaments of an owl. While others are hoarding up their bags of money without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...ideas of the incomprehensible First Cause still more exalted the more minutely I examine His works. I sometimes smile to think that, while others are...enjoying it, I am collecting, without injuring my conscicnce, or wounding my peace of mind, those beautiful specimens of nature's works that are forever... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...ideas of the incomprehensible First Cause still more exalted the more minutely I examine His works. I sometimes smile to think that, while others are...in deep schemes of speculation and aggrandizement, iu building towns and purchasing plantations, I am entranced in contemplation over the plumage of a... | |
 | Samuel Neale - 1795 - 550 pages
...form some idea of his enthusiasm at this time by the manner in which he describes himself. He says: "I sometimes smile to think that while others are...hoarding up their bags of money without the power of :.107; 1 1 1C2 JOURNEY TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. enjoying it, I am collecting, without injuring my conscience... | |
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I sometimes smile to think that while others are immersed in deep schemes of speculation and aggrandizement — in building towns, and purchasing plantations, I am entranced in contemplation over the plumage of a lark, or gazing like a despairing lover,... 
