Under the Blue SkySampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1871 - 344 Seiten |
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... especially - understand many words that I em- ploy , if I speak emphatically , and that my own dog will do what I tell him ; but , if I do not understand what one dog says to another , whose fault is it , mine or the dog's ? Man may ...
... especially - understand many words that I em- ploy , if I speak emphatically , and that my own dog will do what I tell him ; but , if I do not understand what one dog says to another , whose fault is it , mine or the dog's ? Man may ...
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... especially if , remembering with Shakespeare , that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy , we consider , at the same time , that there may be an infinitude of sounds in Nature which our ears are ...
... especially if , remembering with Shakespeare , that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy , we consider , at the same time , that there may be an infinitude of sounds in Nature which our ears are ...
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... , Clasp with fond arms , and mix their kisses sweet . This may be thought an idle dream , unworthy of serious , or , more especially , of scientific considera- tion ; while some very matter - of - fact OF PLANTS . 51.
... , Clasp with fond arms , and mix their kisses sweet . This may be thought an idle dream , unworthy of serious , or , more especially , of scientific considera- tion ; while some very matter - of - fact OF PLANTS . 51.
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... especially seems to avoid the sparrow , and will no more associate with him than a gentle- man will shake hands with a chimney - sweep . The blackbirds and thrushes - thrice as large as spar- rows - will on no account eat with them ...
... especially seems to avoid the sparrow , and will no more associate with him than a gentle- man will shake hands with a chimney - sweep . The blackbirds and thrushes - thrice as large as spar- rows - will on no account eat with them ...
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... especially the carrots , the tur- nips , the spinach , the parsnips , and the lettuces . Whether they watched with their sharp little eyes from some neighbouring tree the process of sowing the seed , and knew where to go to in the ...
... especially the carrots , the tur- nips , the spinach , the parsnips , and the lettuces . Whether they watched with their sharp little eyes from some neighbouring tree the process of sowing the seed , and knew where to go to in the ...
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able animals ants barrel-organ beautiful better birds Blackheath bread Cade Cade's called Champagne Charlie cheese comic common consonants creatures Culpeper deadly nightshade dinner Duke of York earn England English Evelyn express eyes favour favourite feet fellow female flies flowers formicans garden gentleman Gomm hand-shaking happy hear heart herbs honour human nature hundred idea intelligence Jack John Cade John Evelyn Katherine Phillips Kent kind king labour Lady Hatton language live London look Lord married Max Müller means mind mosquito Music Halls never once Orinda parish perhaps person philosopher pison plant poems poet poor popular possession pounds quadrupeds Robert Burns Sayes Court seems shillings sing Sir Christopher sometimes songs sounds sparrow street suppose taste things thought thousand Tom D'Urfey tree vowels wife woman women words workhouse young
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Seite 234 - ... in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Seite 230 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Seite 16 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Seite 293 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man ? Some say, the bee stings ; but I say, 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.
Seite 29 - For it is evident, we observe no footsteps in them of making use of general signs, for universal ideas ; from which we have reason to imagine, that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making general ideas, since they have no use of words or any other general signs.
Seite 31 - ... accent, it means what has been thrown away ; pronounced with the grave circumflex, it means what is left of a fruit after it has been squeezed out ; pronounced with no accent, it means three ; pronounced with the ascending or interrogative accent, it means a box on the ear. Thus— Ba, ba, ba, ba, is said to mean, if properly pronounced, ' Three ladies gave a box on the ear to the favourite of the prince.
Seite 90 - ... by a free communication of the art and knowledge of it to others. All that I myself am able yet to do, is only to recommend to mankind the search of that felicity, which you instruct them how to find and to enjoy.
Seite 28 - Now, however much the frontiers of the animal kingdom have been pushed forward, so that at one time the line of demarcation between animal and man seemed to depend on a mere fold in the brain, there is one barrier which no one has yet ventured to touch — the barrier of language.
Seite 320 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own...
Seite 94 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...