 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 808 páginas
...would have (when scattered) the better chance of rearing families as well as of escaping imprisonment. THE changes wrought by death are in themselves so...in this tremendous neighbourhood, the inhabitants arc not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than if they were delving gardens... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 páginas
...whisperings than this i prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...fiery mountains, and how, even in this tremendous neighborhood, the inhabitants are not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1895 - 94 páginas
...and subtle implications conveyed in a single word^ I* We have all heard,' he says in one of these, ' of cities in South America built upon the side of...delving gardens in the greenest corner of England.' You can feel the ground shake and see the volcano tower above you at that word ' tremendous neighbourhood.'... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 páginas
...hits and subtle implications conveyed in t single word. "We have all heard," he says in one of these, "of cities in South America built upon the side of...delving gardens in the greenest corner of England." Yon can feel the ground shake and see the volcano tower above yon at that word " tremendous neighbourhood."... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 248 páginas
...whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...fiery mountains, and how, even in this tremendous neighborhood, the inhabitants are not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 252 páginas
...whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...fiery mountains, and how, even in this tremendous neighborhood, the inhabitants are not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 páginas
...whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. 5 We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...fiery mountains, and how, even in this tremendous neighborhood, the inhabitants are not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 280 páginas
...whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...serenades and suppers and much gallantry among the myrtle^ overhead; and meanwhile the foundation shudders underfoot, the bowels of the mountain growl,... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 páginas
...whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...fiery mountains, and how, even in this tremendous neighborhood, the inhabitants are not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 400 páginas
...whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less influence on conduct under healthy circumstances. We have all heard of cities in South America built upon...fiery mountains, and how, even in this tremendous neighborhood, the inhabitants are not a jot more impressed by the solemnity of mortal conditions than... | |
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... swiftness, in leaving people little time to think, have not left them time enough to go dangerously wrong in practice. As a matter of fact, although few things are spoken of with more fearful whisperings than this prospect of death, few have less... 
