Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favored by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of ; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided... Putnam's Monthly - Strana 4431854Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 478 str.
...still be good for the grass, on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it...that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 str.
...still be good for the grass, on the uplands, and, being good for the grass it would be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it...that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 str.
...still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it...that I 'am conscious of ; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - 1916 - 346 str.
...still be good for the grass, on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it...that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 str.
...still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me. surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1908 - 320 str.
...be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favoured by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of — as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 372 str.
...still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it seems as if I were more favoured by the gods than they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of — as if I had a warrant... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 str.
...still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, it would be good for me. Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men, it...that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded. I do not flatter... | |
| Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1996 - 200 str.
...peculiar hubris he embodies. Like Socrates, he appears to have a special relationship with the gods. "Sometimes, when I compare myself with other men,...that I am conscious of; as if I had a warrant and surety at their hands which my fellows have not, and were especially guided and guarded."20 This special... | |
| Michael West - 2000 - 546 str.
...with them. Kept indoors by a gentle rain that waters his beans, he compares his lot to other men's: "It seems as if I were more favored by the gods than...they, beyond any deserts that I am conscious of." By no means always brilliant, the punning is often so convoluted as to seem scarcely worth exhuming.... | |
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