... 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
| The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 páginas
...therefore, to refer to what he thought upon the subject. "Among men," says he, " you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities...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 - 1824 - 516 páginas
...hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces; — if you should see tins, you would see nothing more than what is every day...and established among men. Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine toilmg and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one {and this one too, oftentimes... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 472 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 .w ould see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men. Among men. you... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 490 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...the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a keap of superfluities for one ; getting nothing for themselves ali the while, but a little of the coarsest... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 452 páginas
...touched a grain of it, all the others instantly flew upon it and tore it to pieces : if you saw all this, you would see nothing more than what is every...practised and established among men. Among men you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities and niceties for one, gather... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 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,... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 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...is every day practised and established among men. " There must be some very important advantages to account to their individual portions of the Pentland... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 páginas
...first view seems as little consonant to our reason as it is to our feelings. " You see the ninety-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities...— and this one too, oftentimes the feeblest and the worst of the whole set, — a child, a madman, or a fool ; — getting nothing for themselves all... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 páginas
...first view seems as little consonant to our reason as it is to our feelings. " You see the ninety-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities...— and this one too, oftentimes the feeblest and the worst of the whole set, — a child, a madman, or a fool ; — getting nothing for themselves all... | |
| William Paley - 1827 - 250 páginas
...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...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... | |
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