Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the... The North British Review - Strona 1351857Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - Liczba stron: 586
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.'1 Real England hates and detests the maxims and actions of the French Revolution: 2 ' The very... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1872 - Liczba stron: 382
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle repose in the shade and are silent, pray do not suppose that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome... | |
| 1873 - Liczba stron: 682
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle reposing, chew their cud and are silent, you are not to imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." Some of the small fry of the Eclectic Medical Society, who are allowed to worship at a distance, like... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - Liczba stron: 444
...sali à propos des droits de l'homme'. » reposedbenealh thé shadow of thé British oak, chew thé cud and are silent, pray, do not imagine that those who make thé noise are theonly inhabitants of thé field; that of course they are many in number; or that after... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - Liczba stron: 798
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. Ibid. Vol. iii. p. 344. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our... | |
| Glasgow st. Andrew society - 1874 - Liczba stron: 300
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome insects of the hour." The opposition to the Act of Union in Scotland was, therefore, almost entirely the work of the Jacobite... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - Liczba stron: 568
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many iu number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though... | |
| New York County Lawyers' Association - 1912 - Liczba stron: 222
...chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those that make the noise are the only denizens of the field ; that of course they are many in number,...or that, after all, they are other than the little, meager, shriveled, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour." JUDGE PARKER: We have... | |
| |