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" Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest things are worth looking at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. "
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of ... - Page 43
by American Institute of Instruction - 1855
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The North American Review, Volume 73

North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy in the Bible than in...
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The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old Field

Hugh Miller - Geology - 1842 - 358 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes ; — the commonest...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Kead good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy in the Bible than in...
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The Christian Witness, and Church Member's Magazine, Volume 3

Theology - 626 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest...stones, and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Head good books, not forgetting the best of all. There is more true philosophy in the Bible than in...
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Sacred geology; or, The scriptural account of the world's creation ...

John Tudor - Creation - 1847 - 468 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes: the commonest...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals, Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy in the Bible than in...
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Sacred geology; or, The scriptural account of the world's creation ...

John Tudor - Creation - 1847 - 434 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes: the commonest...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy in the Bible than in...
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The North American Review, Volume 73

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1851 - 566 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes: the commonest...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy in the Bible than in...
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Old Red Sandstone ...

Hugh Miller - Devonian formation - 1851 - 384 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest things arc worth looking at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not...
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The New Brunswick Review, Volume 1

Religion - 1855 - 664 pages
...work on the " Old Red 'Sandstone." He there gives his fellow laborer such lessons as these : — " Learn to make a right use of your eyes. The commonest...even stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all. There is more true philosophy in the Bible, than in...
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1855 - 240 pages
...the family and in the 6 DR. HOOKER'S LECTURE social circle. He would feel with Hugh Miller, that " the commonest things are worth looking at ; even, stones and weeds, and the most familiar animals." In his daily walks he would see something more to admire in nature than its mere external beauty. His...
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The Old Red Sandstone

Hugh Miller - Devonian formation - 1856 - 338 pages
...harangue unheeded, and set yourselves to occupy your leisure hours in making yourselves wiser men. Learn to make a right use of your eyes : the commonest...at — even stones and weeds, and the most familiar ai jmals. Read good books, not forgetting the best of all : there is more true philosophy in the Bible...
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