Out-door PapersTicknor and Fields, 1863 - Počet stran: 370 |
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... trees , where the higher foliage , closing around , cures the dizzi- ness which began below , and one feels as if he had left a coward beneath and found a hero above ? -the joyous hour of crowded life in football or cricket ? the ...
... trees , where the higher foliage , closing around , cures the dizzi- ness which began below , and one feels as if he had left a coward beneath and found a hero above ? -the joyous hour of crowded life in football or cricket ? the ...
Strana 67
... doctors has brought out but little scepticism on this point . Cardan , it is true , in his treatise , " Plantæ cur Animalibus diu- - — turniores , " maintained that trees lived longer than men A LETTER TO A DYSPEPTIC . 67.
... doctors has brought out but little scepticism on this point . Cardan , it is true , in his treatise , " Plantæ cur Animalibus diu- - — turniores , " maintained that trees lived longer than men A LETTER TO A DYSPEPTIC . 67.
Strana 68
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. turniores , " maintained that trees lived longer than men because they never stirred from their places . Exercise , he held , increases transpiration ; transpiration shortens life ; to live long , then , we ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. turniores , " maintained that trees lived longer than men because they never stirred from their places . Exercise , he held , increases transpiration ; transpiration shortens life ; to live long , then , we ...
Strana 107
... trees or in caves , feed on snakes and vermin , on ants and ants ' eggs , on mice , and on each other ; they cannot be tamed , nor forced to any labor ; and they are hunted and shot among the trees , like the great gorillas , of which ...
... trees or in caves , feed on snakes and vermin , on ants and ants ' eggs , on mice , and on each other ; they cannot be tamed , nor forced to any labor ; and they are hunted and shot among the trees , like the great gorillas , of which ...
Strana 129
... Tree by tree , in two centuries , the forest has been felled . What were the Pyramids to that ? History does not record another athletic feat so aston- ishing . -- - But there yet lingers upon this continent a forest of moral evil more ...
... Tree by tree , in two centuries , the forest has been felled . What were the Pyramids to that ? History does not record another athletic feat so aston- ishing . -- - But there yet lingers upon this continent a forest of moral evil more ...
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Strana 111 - you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world." " I don't know how great men you may be," said the Guinea man, " but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
Strana 255 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?
Strana 109 - ... something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But compare the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost.
Strana 179 - Only thus much; by Hercules, I do hold it, and will affirm it before any prince in Europe, to be the most sovereign and precious weed that ever the earth tendered to the use of man.
Strana 346 - Natural beauty in winter is a poor man's luxury, infinitely enhanced in quality by the diminution in quantity. Winter, with fewer and simpler methods, yet seems to give all her works a finish even more delicate than that of summer, working, as Emerson says of English agriculture, with a pencil, instead of a plough. Or rather, the ploughshare is but concealed; since a pithy old English preacher has said that "the frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening...
Strana 109 - If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch, and the same blow shall send the white to his grave.
Strana 298 - Even the chrysalis is less amazing, for its form always preserves some trace, however fantastic, of the perfect insect, and 13* it is but moulting a skin ; but this egg appears to the eye like a separate unit from some other kingdom of Nature, claiming more kindred with the very stones than with feathery existence ; and it is as if a pearl opened and an angel sang.
Strana 128 - This is to give notice to all my Honourd Masters and Ladies and the' rest and of my loving Friends that my Lady Butterfield gives a challenge to ride a horse to leap a horse or run on foot or...
Strana 257 - The moment was important in my poetical history, for I date from it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, and I made a resolution to supply, in some degree, the deficiency.
Strana 38 - I have found," said the Duke, "that raw troops, however inferior to the old ones in manoeuvring, are far superior to them in downright hard fighting with the enemy : at Waterloo, the young ensigns and lieutenants, who had never before seen a battle, rushed to meet death as if they had been playing at cricket.