 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1834 - 894 pages
...keeping " this heap for one, and that the weak" est, perhaps worst pigeon of the flock ; " silting round and looking on all the " winter whilst this...throwing about, and wasting it ; and " if a pigeon more hungry or hardy than. " the rest touched a grain of the hoard, " all ihe others flying upon it and... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 478 pages
...they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the cbaft and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst, pigeon of the flock; sittinground, and looking on, all the winter, whilst this one was de vouring, throwing about, and wasting... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1827 - 250 pages
...all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst,...whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasteing it; and if a pigeon, more, hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst,...one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it i and if a pigeon more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1828 - 532 pages
...all they got into a heap; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst, pigeon of the flock; sitting round, and Idoking on, all the winter, whilst this one wa.1 devouring, throwing about, and wasteing it; and if... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...they got, into a heap; reserving Mining tor themselves, but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this d a discord. Ifhe had been indifferent about our happiness...excluded) both the capacity of our senses to receive » grain of the hoard, all the others flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces; if you should see this,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Business & Economics - 1836 - 274 pages
...for themselves, but the chaff and the refuse, keeping this heap for one and that perhaps the weakest pigeon of the flock, sitting round and looking on,...about, and wasting it, and if a pigeon, more hardy and hungry 17* than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...' gathering all the corn they could pick up into a heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps, and worst pigeon of the flock, sitting round, and looking...one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it.' George the Third never forgave this (as he thought) truculent slap at monarchy ; and when the writer... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 560 pages
...gathering all the corn they could pick up into a heap for one, ' and that the weakest, perhaps, and worst pigeon of the flock, ' sitting round, and looking...was * devouring, throwing about, and wasting it.' George the Third never forgave this (as he thought) truculent slap at monarchy ; and when the writer... | |
 | 1846 - 698 pages
...perhaps, and worst pigeon of the flock ; sitting round and looking ou all the winter, whilst tin's one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it ; and if a pigeon, more hardy and hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and... | |
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... if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninetynine of them gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse, keeping this... 
