 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 388 oldal
...earth. The Universe after all was but a suit of clothes and the Deity a scarecrow. Besides "what is land but a fine coat faced with green or the sea but a waistcoat of watertabby"? Even the foliage of the trees followed fashions, for "among the vegetable beaux, observe how sparkish... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 2006 - 270 oldal
...is invested by the air; the air is invested by the stars; and the stars are invested by the primum mobile. Look on this globe of earth, you will find...is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced 36 The Aegyptians worshipped a monkey, which animal is very fond of eating lice, styled here creatures... | |
 | Jan Veldkamp - 1923 - 132 oldal
...is invested by the air; the air is invested by the stars; and the stars are invested by the primum mobile. Look on this globe of earth, you will find...creation, you will find how curious journeyman Nature has been to trim up the vegetable beaux; observe how sparkish a periwig adorns the head of a beech,... | |
 | 1916 - 256 oldal
...is invested by the air; the air is invested by the stars; and the stars are invested by the primum mobile. Look on this globe of earth, you will find...very complete and fashionable dress. . . . What is man himself but a microcoat, or rather a complete suit of clothes with all its trimmings? as to his... | |
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Look on this globe of earth, you will find it to be a very complete and fashionable dress. What is that which some call land but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of water-tabby... 
