 ... 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...  The Dublin Review - Seite 226herausgegeben von - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jen Carp (pseud.) - 1885 - 158 Seiten
...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...more than what is every day practised and established among men. Among men you see the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities... | |
 | 1886 - 294 Seiten
...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...more than what is every day practised and established among * Paley's Moral Philosophy, book in., chap, i., p. 119, vol. i., i6th edition, 1806. men. Among... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1890 - 352 Seiten
...than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, anil tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see...more than what is every day practised and established among men. Among men, you see the ninety -and-nine, toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 Seiten
...than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flving upon it and tearing it to pieces; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day practiced and established among men. Among men you see the ninetyand-nine toiling and scraping together... | |
 | George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 752 Seiten
...touch a grain of the hoard, and if all the others should instantly fly upon it and tear it to pieces, you would see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men; "ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one, oftentimes... | |
 | George A. Richardson - 1896 - 472 Seiten
...conditions can occur except by cheaper production and more others instantly flying upon it and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this you would see nothing...more than what is every day practised and established among men." The philosophy of this volume would give to every pigeon (for the present era) whatever... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 Seiten
...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 more than what is every day practiced and established among men. Among men you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping together... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Mair Simpson - 1898 - 394 Seiten
...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 more than what is every day practised or established among men. Among men you see the ninety-and-nine toiling and scraping together a heap... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 596 Seiten
...should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men. Among men you see the ninety-and-nine toiling...scraping together a heap of superfluities' for one, and this too, oftentimes, the feeblest and worst of the whole set — a child, a woman, a madman, or... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 Seiten
...than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flocking upon it, tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see...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... | |
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