 IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing...  The National Quarterly Review - Sivu 268muokkaaja - 1860Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Paley, Richard Whately - 1859 - 264 sivua
...BOOK III. RELATIVE DUTIES. PART I. OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE. CHAPTER I. OF PROPERTY. IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...gathering 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... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1859 - 362 sivua
...been very forcibly represented by Dr. Paley, in the well-known allegory of the flock of pigeons: " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...each picking where and what it liked, taking just what it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap;... | |
 | Joseph Haven - 1859 - 396 sivua
...been very forcibly represented by Dr. Paley, in the well-known allegory of the flock of pigeons : " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...each picking where and what it liked, taking just what it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 sivua
...news, good brother ; pluck it out of thy bosom and try. Pilgrim's Progress.— JOHN BUNYAN. PROPERTY. If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...gathering 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... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 sivua
...corn, And, hungry, dares not taste the smallest grain, But feeds on mallows and such bitter herbs." "If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...as much as it wanted, and no more,) you should see ninety and nine of them gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves but the... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1869 - 460 sivua
...WILLIAM PALEY, DD, ARCHDEACON OF CARLISLE, in his "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy," says: "If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...gathering 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... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 570 sivua
...of landlord and tenant in Ireland, that I deem it well worthy of quotation : — " If," wrote he, " you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn,...gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves but the diaff and the refuse, keeping this heap for ONE, and that the WEAKEST, perhaps,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1871 - 558 sivua
...must, after all, be admitted. This may be called an " Introduction paradoxical." For instance : — "If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...gathering 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1872 - 214 sivua
...and generated a series of events leading straight to a war between Russia and the Western Powers. 21. If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...gathering 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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 sivua
...unoccupied by any one else. — Commentaries, [WILLIAM PALEY, DD 1743—1803.] THE ORIGIN OF PROPERTY. IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...gathering 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... | |
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