 To set this thought in its true light, we will fancy, if you please, that yonder mole-hill is inhabited by reasonable creatures, and that every pismire (his shape and way of life only excepted) is endowed with human passions. How should we' smile to hear...  The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison - Page 233by Joseph Addison - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 pages
...species. To set this thought in its true light, we will fancy, if you please, that yonder mole-hill is inhabited by reasonable creatures, and that every...way for the pismire that passes through them ! You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 548 pages
...light, к will fancy, if you please, that yonder molehill is inhabited by reasonable creatures, «n! that every pismire (his shape and way of life only...endowed with human passions. How should we smile to heart« give us an account of the pedigrees, distinctions, and titles that reign among them ! Observe... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...species. 2 To set this thought in its true light, we shall fancy, if you please, that yonder molehill is inhabited by reasonable creatures ; and that every...human passions. How should we smile to hear one give an account of the pedigrees, distinctions and titles, that reign among them. Observe how the whole... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - Readers - 1846 - 180 pages
...if you please, that yonder molehill is inhabited by reasona ble creatures ; and that every pls'mire, (his shape and way of life only excepted,) is endowed...human passions. How should we smile to hear one give an account of the pedigrees, distinctions, and titles, that reign among them ! 3. Observe' how the... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...species. To set this thought in its true light, we will fancy, if you please, that yonder mole-hill is inhabited by reasonable creatures, and that every...way for the pismire that passes through them ! You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the... | |
 | My old pupils - 1849 - 212 pages
...He goes on to say : ' How should we smile to hear one give an account of the pedigrees, distinction, and titles that reign among them ! Observe how the whole swarm divide, and make way for the emmet that passes through them. You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1853 - 902 pages
...species. To set this thought in its true light,* we will fancy, if you please, that yonder mole-hill is inhabited by reasonable creatures, and that every...way for the pismire that passes through them. You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the... | |
 | Henry John Betts - 1854 - 102 pages
...every ant is endowed with human passions. He goes on to say :—" How should we smile to hear one give an account of the pedigrees, distinctions, and titles...Observe how the whole swarm divide, and make way for the emmet that passes through them. You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 pages
...heart. Do but see what a drove of lovers are running after her I The moralist concludes his picture the pedigrees, distinctions, and titles that reign...Observe how the whole swarm divide, and make way for the emmet that passes tbrough them. You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has oy supposing... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 pages
...species. To set this thought in its true light," we will fancy, if you please, that yonder mole-hill is inhabited by reasonable creatures, and that every...way for the pismire that passes through them. You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has bettor blood in his veins than any pismire in the... | |
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