For many years it has been one of my constant regrets, that no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge of natural history, so far at least as to have taught me the grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually... Horace Hazelwood; Or, Little Things: And Other Tales - Page 119by Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1871 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1866 - 400 pages
...favored by Mr. Thomas Carlyle with a characteristic letter, from which the following is an extract: — " For many years it has been one of my constant regrets,...grasses that grow by the wayside, and the little winged aud windless neighbours that are continually meeting me, with a salutation which I cannot answer, as... | |
| Museum and English journal of education - 1866 - 492 pages
...with a characteristic letter." And then it gives the following extract : — " For many years it lias been one of my constant regrets, that no schoolmaster...and the little winged and wingless neighbours that arc continually meeting me, with a salutation that I cannot answer, as things are ! Why didn't somebody... | |
| 1866 - 544 pages
...propose* to introduce tlie teuehing of natural history into boarding-schools mid private families: "For many years it has been one of my constant regrets that no schoolmaster of mine hud n Knowledge of natural history, go far, at least, OB to have taught me the grasses that grow by... | |
| 1867 - 546 pages
...At any rate, like rules guide us in the culture of any and all of the senses. NATURAL HISTORY. — For many years it has been one of my constant regrets,...by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me, with a salutation which I can not answer, as things are.... | |
| Arthur Henfrey - 1867 - 502 pages
...upon matter are exhausted, they will, perhaps, widen their conceptions upon * Mr. Carlyle writes: " For many years it has been one of my constant regrets,...by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me, with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are !... | |
| Boston (Mass.). School Committee - 1868 - 508 pages
...common sense is as remarkable as the uncommon way in which he generally expresses it, says : " That for many years it has been one of my constant regrets...by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I cannot answer as things are. Why didn't... | |
| 1870 - 404 pages
...govern the preservation and germination of seeds. — Gardener's Monthly. STUDY OF NATURAL HISTORY. — "For many years it has been one of my constant regrets...by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why... | |
| Thomas EDMONDSTON - 1868 - 356 pages
...than in his time, and seldom fails to prove interesting. Thomas Carlyle lately thus wrote of it — " For many years it has been one of my constant regrets...History, so far at least as to have taught me the little winged and wingless neighbours, that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot... | |
| Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education - 1869 - 340 pages
...few years, and upon which public opinion has undergone a rapid modification. Mr. Carlyle says that for many years " it has been one of my constant regrets...by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation I can not answer, as things are. Why didn't... | |
| 1869 - 878 pages
...good qualities of relatives and friends." Carlyle says, in a letter to a gentleman in Edinburg : " For many years it has been one of my constant regrets...by the wayside, and the little winged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are! Why... | |
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