 ... 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
 | Alexander Bain - 1852 - 304 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...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,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 200 páginas
...pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others flying HJIOII it, and tearing it to pieces — if you should see this, you would see nothing more than is every day practised and established among men. Among men you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1853 - 308 páginas
...more hardy and 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...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 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...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... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1853 - 564 páginas
...paradoxical. * See Tacitua in the opening of his " History ; " and the beginning of Paley's Natural Theology. pieces; if you should see this, you would see nothing...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... | |
 | 1853 - 728 páginas
...more hardy and 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... | |
 | 1853 - 724 páginas
...instantly flying upon it and tearing it to pieces ; if you should sec this you would see nothing more tlmn what is every day practised and established among...scraping together a heap of superfluities for one; getting nothing for themselves all the while, hut a little of the coarsest of the provision which their... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 560 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...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... | |
 | 1855 - 594 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...you would see nothing more than what is every day practiced among men. Among men, you see the niuety-and-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 556 páginas
...of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should sec this, you would see nothing more than what is every...practised and established among men. Among men you sec the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one ; (and this one... | |
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