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" The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity... "
A history of wonderful inventions - Page 120
by History - 1849 - 125 pages
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1848 - 726 pages
...leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity : the other teaches me that every grain of sand may harbour within it...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate, Volume 69

1869
...very far, beyond this : for the telescope has told us, " that this mighty globe, with the whole burden 2Z on the high field of immensity." This earth which we inhabit, with its two hundred and sixtymillions...
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Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute, Volume 1

1833 - 426 pages
...leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity ; the other teaches me that every grain of sand may harbor within it...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1

1833 - 310 pages
...leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty glohe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity ; the other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 11

1833 - 588 pages
...led mo to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity; the other teaches me that every grain of sand may harbor within, the...
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The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4

1834 - 440 pages
...leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity ; the other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1837 - 868 pages
...unfolds to us a world in every atom. The one teaches us that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand in the field of immensity — the other, that every atom may harbor the tribes and families of a busy population....
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The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., Volume 2

Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1838 - 372 pages
...unfolds to us a world in every atom. The one instructs us that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand in the vast field of immensity — the other, that every atom may harbour the tribes and families of a busy population....
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Light: its properties and effects

Light - 1838 - 298 pages
...leads me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field of immensity ; the other teaches me that every grain of sand may harbour within it...
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The wonders of geology; or, A familiar exposition of geological phenomena ...

Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 444 pages
...our conceptions of His wondrous works. Thus, in the eloquent language of Dr. Chalmers, — " while the telescope enables us to see a system in every...countries, is but a grain of sand in the vast field of immensity — the other, that every atom may harbour the tribes and families of a busy population....
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