| American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 328 pages
...true of the devoted, belongs in its measure to all cultivators of natural science. They may all read "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything." They may all find solace here, for the perturbation, and the discomfort which belongs to so much of... | |
| 1841 - 580 pages
...Elia charm (though there is but one Elia to us) which at once takes hold upon the heart. She finds Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, And good in everything. Hear her discourse of rivers : the poetic illustration of the " Ferry of Orontes." It is of a kindred... | |
| 1867 - 826 pages
...into tic heavenly fold. Then, to spiritualize the words of Shakespeare, the Christian may find — " Sermons in stones. Books in the running brooks, And good in everything," saying at all times, and in all circumstances, " For me to live is Christ." THE FASHIONABLE LIE, "... | |
| Charles Delucena Meigs - 1848 - 716 pages
...opposing the very beginnings of evil; and since we ought, like Jacques in the forest, to be able to find "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything." But let us leave moralizing, and return to our physic; all the cavities of the living body, as the... | |
| 1849 - 708 pages
...on whose page we read only by Faith the unseen evidence that " whatever is is right," — finding " Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and...to quarrel too loudly or too deeply with aught that it, we shall do well to lower our tone, keeping our temper and our foot as standing upon Holy ground,... | |
| Truth-seeker and present age - 1850 - 478 pages
...into those sweet and solemn wilds of the Peak, and there, walking hand-in-hand with Nature, find " Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, And good in everything." SPENCER T. HALL. SOCIAL SCIENCE. BY JAMES HOLE. LECTURE II. — THE PROVINCE OP SOCIETY. {HE present... | |
| Charles Delucena Meigs - 1851 - 734 pages
...opposing the very beginnings of evil; and since we ought, like Jacques in the forest, to be able to find "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything." But let us leave moralizing, and return to our physic; all the cavities of the living body, as the... | |
| Uriah Clark - 1852 - 170 pages
...But he passed the ordeal, and became transformed in the new image of Christ. As a student, he found ' sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything.' He was too active and practical to become a voluminous reader. Yet, whatever he attempted was readily... | |
| Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1852 - 510 pages
...waving of grain, the perfume of new made hay, looing of kine, the milkmaid at the stile; they may find "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and good in everything." To you who are practical men and women, such stuff, from such a source, and so expressed, sounds, doubtless,... | |
| 1856 - 902 pages
...and our race would progress speedily to the acme of perfection.' But, we reply, though there be — ' Sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, And good in everything,' the stones are such cold preachers, that we can scarcely be expected to profit much by their discourses.... | |
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