 | Proverbs - 1817 - 364 pages
...how should these petty sins affect him ? — So he transgresseth yet again, and falleth by little and little, Till the ground crumble beneath him, and he sinketh in the gull despairing. For there is nothing in the earth so small that it may not produce great things, And... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Conduct of life - 1840 - 126 pages
...crimes, how should these petty sins affect him ? So he transgresseth yet again, and falleth by little and little, till the ground crumble beneath him, and he...so small that it may not produce great things, and the shoal that hath wrecked a navy is the work of a colony of worms. Yea, and a despicable gnat may... | |
 | Children's periodicals, American - 1841 - 450 pages
...hearts, and tender, Full oft shall linger nigh, Their tribute tear to render, And learn, of thee to die THERE is nothing in the earth so small that it may...great things ; And no swerving from a right line that it may not lead eternally astray. 3 TESTS OF POLITENESS. OF the gentlemen, young and old, whiskered... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 pages
...VOLUME.' .',•! .•! . •; ..t '.• i iv 1.1 •, .' .rir[J II I •«.,*.. >' i •' . ' i / lor there is nothing in the earth so small that it may not produce great things. .11:..' ••'• -. .'tv • .: / .--. i,- i! •;:,\ [ landmark-tree was once a seed : and the dust... | |
 | 1840 - 308 pages
...how should these petty sins affect him ?— So he transgresseth yet again, and fallcth by little and little, Till the ground crumble beneath him, and he...in the earth so small that it may not produce great And no swerving from a right line, that may not lead eternally astray. A landmark tree wa? once a seed,... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - English poetry - 1850 - 490 pages
...how should these petty sins affect him ?— So he transgresseth yet again, and falleth by little and little, ['".!?• Till the ground crumble beneath him, and he sinketh in the gulf despairFor there is nothing in the earth so small that it may not produce great things, And no swerving... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 496 pages
...how should these petty sins affect him ?— So he transgresseth yet again, and falleth by little and little, Till the ground crumble beneath him, and he...that may not lead eternally astray. A landmark tree wa? once a seed, and the dust in the balance maketh a difference; And the cairn is heaped high by each... | |
 | Joseph Cross - Christian biography - 1851 - 366 pages
...constitute a river, which shall roll on, in swelling majesty, through the continent of a thousand miles. " There is nothing in the earth so small that it may not produce great things; neither is any thing vast, that is not compacted of atoms." Our individual efforts may seem insignificant,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...machinery, and dresses, let the reader judge. The importance of trifles is dilated upon thus : — For there is nothing in the earth so small that it may not produce great thing's. And no swerving from a right line that may not lead eternally astray. A landmark tree was... | |
 | Henrietta Wilson - Children - 1852 - 86 pages
...how should these petty sins affect him ? " So he transgresseth yet again, and falleth by little and little. ' Till the ground crumble beneath him, and he sinketh in the gulf despairing." — Proverbial Philosophy. WHAT are little sins ? Surely a Christian ought to consider all sin as an... | |
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For there is nothing in the earth so small that it may not produce great things, And no swerving from a right line, that may not lead eternally astray. 
