Popular Series: Anthropology, Edizioni 21-29

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Pagina 4 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Pagina 4 - Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones : the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Pagina 53 - ... (JP Peters and H. Thiersch, Painted Tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa, p.
Pagina 48 - Frozsen sea, stands a spacious island very well peopl'd, and which is no less considerable for hunting the behemot, an amphibious animal, whose teeth are in great esteem. The inhabitants go frequently upon the side of the frozen sea to hunt this monster; and because it requires great labor and assiduity, they carry their families usually along with them.
Pagina 8 - Their bodies are completely painted with all sorts of colors. Some, with white clay, trace white lace on their bodies, as if on all the seams of a coat, and at a distance it would be apt to be taken for silver lace. They play very deep and often.
Pagina 5 - ... itself like an overcharged gun, if it had fallen a victim on the spot and chirruped its little body into fifty pieces, it would have seemed a natural and inevitable consequence, for which it had expressly laboured. The kettle had had the last of its solo performance. It persevered with undiminished ardour ; but the cricket took first fiddle and kept it. Good Heaven, how it chirped ! Its shrill, sharp, piercing voice resounded through the house, and seemed to twinkle in the outer darkness like...
Pagina 8 - Formal specification is outside the scope of this book. Suffice it to say that if we follow the system engineering argument in our derivation of S correctly, then S is correct by construction.
Pagina 5 - And here, if you like, the Cricket did chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus; with a voice, so astoundingly disproportionate to its size, as compared with the Kettle; (size! you couldn't See it!) that if it had then and there burst itself like an overcharged gun: if it had fallen a victim ,'• on the spot, and chirruped its little body into fifty . pieces, it would have seemed a natural and inevitable consequence, for which it had expressly labored.

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