 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....  The British Quarterly Review - 181. oldalSzerkesztette: - 1855Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1855 - 534 oldal
...great estate. The sloth spends its life in trees, not upon the branches, but under them. ' He ' moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and...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 - 412 oldal
...representative of all the ordinary notions about forcing mankind by pains and penalties) took the floor. To buy a partridge (though still considered as inferior...visited with the very heaviest infliction of the law; and yet, though game is sold as openly in London as apples and oranges, though three years have elapsed... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 oldal
...representation of all the ordinary notions about forcing mankind by pains and penalties) took the floor. To buy a partridge (though still considered as inferior...visited with the very heaviest infliction of the law ; and yet, though game is sold as openly in London as apple's and orantes, though three years have... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 oldal
...the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and...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
...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
...the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and...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 - 556 oldal
...the tree ; but what is most extraordinary, he lives not upon the branches, but under them. He moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and...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... | |
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