The History of a Mouthful of Bread: And Its Effect on the Organization of Men and Animals

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Harper & Brothers, 1868 - 398 páginas

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Página 237 - Suppose the fishes to be very, very small, as email as a grain of sand, and closely crowded together through the whole depth of the stream, the water would look red, would it not? And this is the way In which the blood looks red : only observe one thing ; a grain of sand is a mountain in comparison with the little red bodies that float in the blood, which we have likened to little fishes.
Página 104 - ... rich that he did not know what to do with his money — a difficulty in which nobody had ever been before.
Página 20 - ... Have you noticed that when you want to take hold of anything (a bit of bread, we will say), have you noticed that it is always the thumb who puts himself forward, and that he is always on one side by himself, whilst the rest of the fingers are on the other? If the thumb is not helping, nothing stops in your hand, and you don't know what to . do with it. Try, by way of experiment, to carry your spoon to your mouth without putting your thumb to it, and you will see what a long time it will take...
Página 21 - Our hands owe their perfection of usefulness to this happy arrangement, which has been bestowed on no other animal, except the monkey, our nearest neighbor. I may even add, while we are about it, that it is this which distinguishes the hand from a paw or a foot. My foot, which has other things to do than to pick up apples, or lay hold of a fork, has also five fingers, but the largest cannot face the others; it is not a thumb, therefore, and it is because of this, that my foot is not a hand.
Página 237 - ... water would look red, would it not? And this is the way In which the blood looks red : only observe one thing ; a grain of sand is a mountain in comparison with the little red bodies that float in the blood, which we have likened to little fishes. If I were to tell you they measured about the...
Página 247 - It is dangerous to shew man how much he resembles the beasts, without at the same time pointing out to him his own greatness. It is also dangerous to shew him his greatness without pointing out his baseness. It is more dangerous still to leave him in ignorance of both. But it is greatly for his advantage to have both set before him.

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