 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 2761849Full view - About this book
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 472 pages
...a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they arc many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping,... | |
 | Herbert Tuttle - 1876 - 292 pages
...under a fern, make a field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle repose beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that these who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that, of course, they are many in... | |
 | 1876 - 244 pages
...whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and arc silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the ouly inhabitants of the field — that, of course, they are many in number — or that, after all,... | |
 | 1877 - 790 pages
...4. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chirp, while thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath...noise are the only inhabitants of the field, that they are many in number, or that they are, after all, anything better than the little, shrivelled,... | |
 | Abraham Payne, Providence (R.I.). City Council - 1881 - 150 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle repose beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud,...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." Forgive me for quoting Burke so often. I fear that some of my younger hearers are not so familiar with... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1881 - 462 pages
...a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,... | |
 | Providence (R.I.). City Council - 1881 - 144 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle repose beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud,...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." Forgive me for quoting Burke so often. I fear that some of my younger hearers are not so familiar with... | |
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1881 - 556 pages
...fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing under the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." It is right, however, in common fairness towards Horace, to remark, that while fighting in his juvenile... | |
 | 1897 - 668 pages
...of great cattle reposing under the shadow of the oaks, chew the cud and are silent, do not imagine those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. "t But medicine has a higher aim than even the cure of diseases — it is their prevention. However... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...inhabitants of the field ; that of course they are mauy in number; or that after all they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though... | |
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