 A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.  Mechanics Magazine - Page 4911827Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 520 pages
...what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlook'd, — A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much conversant... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...presence of the Divinity, which it sheds on every object on which it gazes, — a light " That gilds all forms Terrestrial, in the vast, and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.''* That... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...observation, and exhibit, whether — " In the vast or the minute, The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds." A man cannot open his eyes without being convinced, that a communication takes place between his mind... | |
 | Education - 1823 - 624 pages
...sufficient matter for admiring the wisdom, the power, and the beneficence of that infinite Being '• Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds." ZZ LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY LECTURE THE SECOND. HEAT. 'I'n E relatiou of bodies to heat has been said,... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pages
...gilding all forms " Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; " Th' unambiguous footsteps of the God, " Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, " And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. " S'o reads he nature, whom the lamp of truth " Illuminates. Thy k(mp. mysterious wordl "Which, whoso... | |
 | John Griscom - Education - 1823 - 40 pages
...the vast and the minute j" and we trace more feelingly "The unambiguous footsteps of the God, "Which gives its lustre to an insect's wing, "And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds." But without study, — without the serious application of our faculties to this immense volume of wisdom,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...never-fading bliss ! Ibid. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Cowper's Task. What prodigies can power divine perform More grand, than it produces year by year, And... | |
 | Maria Hack - Christianity - 1824 - 344 pages
...their original cause, they will discern with greater clearness, " The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds." As the powers of Harry's mind gradually unfolded, he became more of a companion to his mother, who... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...things what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlook'd, P A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...things what, with stupid gaze Of ignorance, till then she overlook 'd, A ray of heav'nly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. Much... | |
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