 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...treacherous intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 434 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...lets them die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, loveable tranquillity ; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous intelligence, The mountains lie about... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 286 pages
...solitude, in all ages. 8. The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practice it. 9. The mountains give their lost children berries and...water; the sea mocks their thirst and lets them die. 10. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven, n. Plato's arrow, aimed at the stars, was followed... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 pages
...you. But this difference there is : you can domesticate mountains, but the sea is ferae naturae. . . . The mountains give their lost children berries and...fascinating, treacherous intelligence. The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession of its long generations. The sea drowns out humanity and... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 124 pages
...and we find it always standing as a type of strength and endurance. 29. Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805. The mountains give their lost children berries and...fascinating, treacherous intelligence. The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession of its long generations. The sea drowns out humanity and... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...and water ; the sea mocks their thirst and lets them e die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity ; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1889 - 702 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...children berries and water ; the sea mocks their thirst, arid lets them die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity ; the sea has a fascinating,... | |
 | 1893 - 722 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from ks jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...lets them die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, loveable tranquility ; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous intelligence. The mountains lie about... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 438 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...mocks their thirst and lets them die. The mountains hare a grand, stupid, Kjveable tranquillity ; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous intelligence.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 pages
...it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost...treacherous intelligence. The mountains lie about like huge ruminants, their broad backs awful to look upon, but safe to handle. The sea smooths its... | |
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... foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. The mountains give their lost children berries and water ; the sea mocks their thirst and lets them die. The mountains have a grand, stupid, lovable tranquillity ; the sea has a fascinating, treacherous... 
