 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1868 - 465 pages
...To favor worthy ends, A cudgel for his enemies, 259 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. A HINDOO FABLE. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. II. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At... | |
 | Tom Hood - Wit and humor - 1869 - 252 pages
...leave the choice to me, I'll die, so please you, of old age !" THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. JG SAXE. IT was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined,...; That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. 1}\e first approached the elephant, And happening to fall Aguinst his broad and sturdy side, At once... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1871 - 374 pages
...is well known by his humorous poetry, much of which has attained great and deserved popularity.] 1. IT was six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined,...blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. 2. The first approached the elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - American poetry - 1873 - 491 pages
...favor worthy ends, A cudgel for his enemies, 259 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. A HINDOO FABLE. * I. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. II. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1913
...of proper development of these senses be in much the same plight as the "six blind men of Indoostan who went to see the elephant, though all of them were blind'"! If there is some possibility in this direction, how about the power of stimulating or interpreting... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875
...earth—then, and not till then—let my epitaph be written! I have done. OIL—THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. 2. The first approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once... | |
 | 1876
...glory of my glory, the perfection of my perfection. KicJiard Baxter. THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl : " God bless me ! but the Elephant Is very like a wall !'' The Serond, feeling of the tusk, Cried... | |
 | William Darrah - 1876
...demands a war of extermination against it. THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. [A HINDOO FARLE.] JG SAXE. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl : " God bless me! — but the Elephant Is very like a wall ! " The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried... | |
 | Recitations - 1876
...glory of my glory, the perfection of niy perfection. Richard Baxter. THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The Firnt approached the Elephant, And, happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began... | |
 | John Godfrey Saxe - 1876 - 491 pages
...favor worthy ends, A cudgel for his enemies, 259 THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT. A HINDOO FABLE. L IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. IL The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once... | |
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