 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 2761849Full view - About this book
 | Welsh - 1892 - 828 pages
...BECAUSE half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow...British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do pot imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. — Burke. CAN Y BABDD... | |
 | University of the State of New York. Examination dept - Examinations - 1895 - 436 pages
...chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, are silent, do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. 4 Parse (from the sentence in question 3) : ring, reposing, silent, those, inhabitants. 5 Write the... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1897 - 446 pages
...21 fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, repoted beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, do not imagine that tliimi' who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, that they are... | |
 | Asia - 1897 - 810 pages
...constrained to do under somewhat similar circumstances though on quite a different question, not to imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make it ring with their importune chink, while thousands... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 426 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink while thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...noise are the only inhabitants of the field — that, or course, they are many in number — or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Butler - Afghan Wars - 1899 - 480 pages
...wrote Burke more than a century ago, ' while many great cattle repose under the shadow of the trees, chew the cud, and are silent, pray do not imagine...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.' CHAPTER IX TO INDIA WITH LORD LYTTON Transvaal Report— Aldershot appointment— Military Secretary... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 468 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud...inhabitants of the field; that of course they are man}' in number; or that after all they are other than the little, shriveled, meager, hopping, though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 pages
...a fern make the field rir.g with their importunate cbiiik, whilst thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud...make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, — tliat, of course, they are many in number, — or that, after all, they are other thati the little,... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1902 - 306 pages
...Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow...and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who made the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. — EDMUND BURKE. 7. Health lies in labor, and... | |
 | Ernest Bruce Iwan-Müller - South Africa - 1902 - 798 pages
...wrote Burke more than a century ago, ' while many great cattle repose under the shadow of the trees, chew the cud, and are silent, pray do not imagine...who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.'2 And later on, in the same volume, speaking of the overthrow of Lord Beaconsiield's Government... | |
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