... worst, pigeon of the flock: sitting round, and looking on. all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it: and if a pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying... Notes and Queries - Página 3391894Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1795 - 432 páginas
...pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces: if you should see...scraping together a heap of superfluities for one; getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision, which... | |
| William Cobbett - 1834 - 894 páginas
...pigeon more hungry or hardy than. " the rest touched a grain of the hoard, " all ihe others flying upon it and tearing it to pieces; if you should see " this, you would see no more than " what is every day practised and esta" blished among men. Among men you. " see the ninety-and-nine... | |
| William Paley - 1806 - 502 páginas
...hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces : if you should see thisj you would see nothing more, than what is every day...practised and established among men. Among men you see the nmety and nine, toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one; getting noth-, mg for... | |
| William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 páginas
...if a pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others flying upon it and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see...too oftentimes the feeblest and worst of the whole set, a child, a woman, a madman, or a fool), getting nothing for themselves all the while^but a little... | |
| William Paley - 1811 - 412 páginas
...pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should...and established among men. Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine, toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one too, oftentimes... | |
| William Paley - 1811 - 540 páginas
...pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces : if you should...this, you would see nothing more than what is every daypractised and established among men. Among men you see the ninety and nine, toiling and scraping... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 páginas
...pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is everj day practised and established among men. Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1823 - 456 páginas
...pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces: if you should see...scraping together a heap of superfluities for one ; getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision which... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 476 páginas
...pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain o! the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ;— if you should...and established among men. Among men, you see the ninetyand-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one too, oftentimes... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1824 - 514 páginas
...pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should...and established among men. Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one, (and this one, too,... | |
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