... 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
| Joseph Haven - 1870 - 390 páginas
...more than what is every day practised and established among men. Among men you see the ninety-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 but the coarsest of... | |
| Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 570 páginas
...than the rest touched a grain of the horde, all the others instantlyflying at him, and tearing him to pieces, — if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is ever)' day practised and established among men. Among men you see ninetyand-nine men toiling and scraping... | |
| Richard Whately - 1871 - 558 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. £ mong men you see the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one... | |
| 1872 - 556 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...practised 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,... | |
| Richard Whately - 1872 - 564 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 moro than what is every day practised and established among men. ^ mong men you see the ninety and... | |
| Richard Whately - 1874 - 364 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... | |
| Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 438 páginas
...pigeon 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...is every day practised and established among men." So by the accident of birth, the feeblest and worst person in the nation, often a child, an idiot.... | |
| Edwin David Sanborn - 1875 - 452 páginas
...hardy and hungry than the rest touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon $ and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this,...is every day practised and established among men." So by the accident of birth, the feeblest and worst person in the nation, often n child, an idiot,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying k 2 $ ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one, and this one too, oftentimes,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 páginas
...than what is every day practised and established among men. Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine Chambers set — a child, a woman, a madman, or a fool — getting nothing for themselves all the while but... | |
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