 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pagini
...the same fitness in a man's building his own house, as there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...developed, as birds universally sing when they are thus engaged.' So, as he hewed his studs and rafters, he sang— if not as musically, at least quite... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pagini
...fitness," he thinks, " in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...their own hands, and provided food for themselves and their families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pagini
...fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows 613 but if men constructed their dwellings with their...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged ? But alas ! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pagini
...fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows bnt if men constructed their dwellings with their own...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged ? But alae ! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pagini
...the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged ? But alas ! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 774 pagini
...the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged? This spending of the best part of one's life A man is rich in proportion to the number of earning money... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pagini
...the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged ? But alas ! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pagini
...man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if f~~~ men constructed their dwellings with their own hands,...birds universally sing when they --- are so engaged ? But alas ! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1899 - 386 pagini
...the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged ? But alas ! we do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1902 - 408 pagini
...personal work in the structure of the house had for him a romantic, as well as economic, interest ; — " Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands and provided1,, food for themselves and families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be... | |
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There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families simply and honestly... 
