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" All the rest of them shirk the work of resisting gravity; the oak alone defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell, — and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the strain may be mighty... "
The Ohio Cultivator - Página 288
por S.D. Harris - 1858
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 páginas
...for its limbs so that *u":- —Hole weight THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. 27| may tell, — and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the strain may be mighty enough to bh worth resisting You will find, that, in passing from the extreme downward droop of the branches...
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The autocrat of the breakfast table, with an intr. by G.A. Sala

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 244 páginas
...defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell ; and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that...the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping willow to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle....
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1873 - 410 páginas
...— and then stretches them out fifty or sixtj feet, so that the strain may be mighty enough to ba worth resisting. You will find, that, in passing from...inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circie. At 90° the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose...
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Old and New, Volumen9

Edward Everett Hale - 1874 - 802 páginas
...whole weight may tell ; and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, that the strain may be weighty enough to be worth resisting. You will find, that,...half a circle. At 90° the oak stops short : to slant upwards another degree would mark infirmity of purpose ; to bend downwards, weakness of organization."...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1879 - 510 páginas
...direction for its limba so that their whole weight may tell, — and then stretches them out fifty or sixtj feet, so that the strain may be mighty enough to be...inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circte. At 90° the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 436 páginas
...it It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell, — and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that...inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a cirele. At 90° the oak stops short ; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose...
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The 'breakfast table' series. The autocrat of the breakfast-table. The ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 páginas
...defies it. It choos«s ihc horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell ; and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that...the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping willow to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle....
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 páginas
...it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs so that their whole weight may tell, — and then stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that...the extreme downward droop of the branches of the weeping-wiUpw to the extreme upward inclination of those of the poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle....
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The New England Magazine, Volumen22;Volumen28

1900 - 830 páginas
...defies it. It chooses the horizontal direction for its limbs, so that their whole weight may tell, and stretches them out fifty or sixty feet, so that the...strain may be mighty enough to be worth resisting." Dr. Holmes had very likely been looking at the wonderful Waverley oak. Says Lowell: "What gnarled stretch,...
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Bulletin, Temas31-60

Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1887 - 700 páginas
...direction for its limbs so that their whole weight may 1 tell, and then stretches them out 50 or 60 feet so that the strain may be mighty enough to be...the extreme downward droop of the branches of the Weeping Willow to the extreme npward inclination of those of the Poplar, they sweep nearly half a circle....
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