 | Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 178 pages
...him down from the tree with grass only. , Well, well, said the old man, if neither words nor grasi will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones : so the ok man pelted him heartily with stones, which soon made tht yoiing chap hasten down from the tree and... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1839 - 180 pages
...pretend to beat him down -from the tree with grass only. Well, well, said the old Man, if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is...stones, which soon made the young chap hasten down from tho tree and beg the old man's pardon. MORAL. If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the-... | |
 | Noah Webster - Spellers - 1842 - 176 pages
...from the tree with grass only. Well, well, said the old man, if neither words nor grass will do, l must try what virtue there is in stones : so the old...from the tree and beg the old man's pardon. MORAL. If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the tricked, they must be dealt with in a more severe... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - Universalism - 1844 - 152 pages
...fable of the old man and the rude boy upon his apple tree, especially the phrase, " If neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones." This, surely, says as much about the future world as the text hi Psalms. And why will he not allow... | |
 | Agriculture - 1847 - 404 pages
...and Sparhawk's Honey. PROTECTION or FRUIT. — " Well, well," said the old man, " if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones." Moral. — " If good words and gentío means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in... | |
 | LUTHER TUCKER - 1847 - 408 pages
...Florence and Sparhawk's Honey. PROTECTION OF FRUIT.—" Well, well," said the old man, " if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is in stones." Moral.—" If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in a... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only. " Well, well, said the old Man, if neither words nor grass, will do, I must try what virtue there is...from the tree and beg the old Man's pardon. " MORAL. " If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in a more severe... | |
 | Hervey Scott - Fairfield County (Ohio) - 1877 - 336 pages
...the tree with grass only. Well, well, said the old man, if neither words nor grass will do, I will try what virtue there is in stones, so the old man...down from the tree and beg the old man's pardon." GRAPE CULTURE. I am indebted to Mr. JF Bovring, of Lancaster, for the following approximative synopsis... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - African Americans - 1882 - 504 pages
...pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only. 'Well, well,' said the old man, 'if neither words nor grass will do, I must try what virtue there is...from the tree, and beg the old man's pardon. " MORAL. • — • If good words and gentle means will not reclaim the wicked, they must be dealt with in... | |
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Won't you? said the old man, then I will fetch you down; so he pulled up some turf or grass and threw at him; but this only made the youngster laugh, to think the old man should pretend to beat him down from the tree with grass only. Well, well, said... 
