 | 1855 - 534 oldal
...does a great estate. The sloth spends its life in trees, not upon the branches, but under them. ' He ' moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended,...young clergyman distantly ' related *to a bishop.' ' He comments on the campanero's note ' which may be heard three miles, this single little bird being... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 oldal
...sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended,...like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop. Strings of ants may be observed, says оиг good travcllerra mile long, each carrying in it1? rnouth... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 oldal
...sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, hut under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense— like a young clergymau distantly related to a bishop. Strings of ants may be observed, says our good traveller,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 702 oldal
...the sloth, Sydney Smith says : " He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and, in fact, passes his life in suspense, like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop." AMILY -^ORSHIP AT TAT'E gathered, after breakfast, in the parlour, or sitting-room they call it, for... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 oldal
...Sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended,...like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop. Strings of ants may be observed, says our good traveller, a mile long, each carrying in its mouth a... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 520 oldal
...sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended,...like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop. Strings of ants may be observed, says our good traveller, a mile long, each carrying in its mouth a... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 736 oldal
...not upon the branches, but under them. i IK- rooie* impended, rests suspended, sleeps I raipnxlni, and passes his life in suspense — like a young clergyman distantly related to • i bub'ip. String* of ants may be observed, uTf our good traveller, a mile long, each in its mouth... | |
 | 1852 - 498 oldal
...sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in suspense — like a yonng :lergyman distantly related to a bishop. Strings of ants may be observed, says our good traveller,... | |
 | 1854 - 572 oldal
...life in trees — but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them, he moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended,...young clergyman distantly related to a bishop. " The land tortoise has two enemies, man and the boa-constrictor. The natural defense of the tortoise is... | |
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The Sloth, in its wild state, spends its life in trees, and never leaves them but from force or accident. The Eagle to the sky, the Mole to the ground, the Sloth to the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them.... 
