 | Sharon Turner - 1832 - 430 Seiten
...same circumstances in which they are placed and live ? When I have put the question to myself, I have not been able to discern that I should, in their bodies...what may be called a steady common sense in their respsctive situations. I have never seen a bird do a foolish thing ; for a creature of their powers,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 424 Seiten
...the circumstances in which they are placed and live ! When I have put the question to myself, I have not been able to discern that I should, in their bodies...for a creature of their powers, frame, and organs, ind in their state. Each acts with a uniform propriety; in thing fantastic, absurd, inconsistent, maniacal,... | |
 | 1833 - 370 Seiten
...to myself, I have not been able to discern that I should, in tlieii Dudies and condition, coiuluct myself very differently from them. They seem to do all the things they ought ; and to act with w hat may be called a steady common sense iu their respective situations", i have never seen a bird... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 Seiten
...the circumstances in which they ar* placed and live * When I have put the question to myself, 1 have not been able to discern that I should, in their bodies...for a creature of their powers, frame, and organs, ^nd in their state. Each acts with a uniform propriety ; m thing fantastic, absurd, inconsistent, maniacal,... | |
 | British birds - 1840 - 326 Seiten
...desire for a more extended and intimate acquaintance with the feathered tribes. A wise man said, " They seem to do all the things they ought ; and to...their powers, frame, and organs, and in their state." Of what reader of this volume could a similar declaration with truth be made ? Still the instinct of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 344 Seiten
...intellectual sensibilities and reasoning, will, and judgment, in them, as in any genus of fish or quadrupeds. They seem to do all the things they ought ; and to act with what may be called a steady common-sense in their respective situations. We have never seen a bird do a foolish thing, for a creature... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 594 Seiten
...among animals. 'When I have put the question to myself,' continues the author above quoted, ' I have not been able to discern that I should, in their bodies...ought, and to act with what may be called a steady common-sense in their respective situations. I have never seen a bird do a foolish thing, for a creature... | |
 | 1854 - 404 Seiten
...among animals. 'When I have put the question to myself,' continues the author above quoted, ' I have not been able to discern that I should, in their bodies...ought, and to act with what may be called a steady common-sense in their respective situations. I have never seen a bird do a foolish thing, for a creature... | |
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I have put the question to myself, 1 bave not been able to discern that I should, in their bodies and condition, conduct myself very differently from them. They seem to do all the things they ought ; and to act with what may be called a steady common... 