 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
 | Sydney Smith - 1870 - 842 oldal
...representative "fall 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 orange?, though three years have elapsed... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 oldal
...rests * Dr Hannah's " Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, DD, LLD," voL ii. p. 237. I suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his life in...young clergyman distantly related to a bishop."* THE GREAT ANT-EATER. (Myrmecophaga jubata, Lt) A FEW months ago a handbill was distributed in the neighbourhood... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1877 - 626 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... | |
 | John George Wood - 1877 - 564 oldal
...remarked in his witty review of "Waterton's Wanderings," the Sloth EUTCHEE8' HOOES. passes his whole life in suspense, " like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop." THERE are many other creatures which afford similar examples, though perhaps none are so striking as... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 oldal
...its wild state, spends its life in trees and never leaves them ; but from force or accident he moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and...like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop !' Pennsylvanian Repudiators. — I see now in my mind's eye a whole army in the plains of Pennsylvania... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1879 - 544 oldal
...of a sloth, who " moves suspended, rests suspended, Suspense. sleeps suspended, and passes his whole life in suspense, like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop." Or, than his simile of the box-tortoise and the boa, who " swallows him shell and all, and consumes... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 448 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 traveler, a mile long, each carrying in its mouth a... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1882 - 452 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 traveler, a mile long, each carrying in its mouth a... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 220 oldal
...the life of a sloth, who " moves suspended, rests suspended, sleeps suspended, and passes his whole life in suspense, like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop." Or, than his simile of the box-tortoise and the boa, who " swallows him shell and all, and consumes... | |
 | Clara L. Matéaux - 1884 - 268 oldal
...summed it up thus : — " The sloth moves suspended in the air, sleeps suspended, and passes his whole life in suspense, like a young clergyman distantly related to a bishop." Very near to the gate by which we entered, and by which we propose leaving the Gardens, is the pretty... | |
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