... thousand different shades or degrees of the same peculiarity. Thus, though there are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, all of which must, from the nature of things, differ from each other in the matter of climate, we have but half a dozen... Phœnixiana: Or, Sketches and Burlesques - Página 31por George Horatio Derby - 1903 - 332 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Horatio Derby - 1856 - 294 páginas
...have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. "We say — u It is a fine day ; " " It is a very fine day;" ".It...superlative expressions are generally untrue. I once heard a gentleman remark, on a rainy, snowy, windy and (in the ordinary English language) indescribable day,... | |
| George Horatio Derby - 1870 - 290 páginas
...expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — " It is a fine day ; " " ft is a very fine day ; " " It is the finest day we have seen ; " Sr? " It is an unpleasant day;" "A very unpleasant day;" "The most unpleasant day we ever saw."... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 páginas
...other in the matter of climate, — we have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — " It is a fine...day;" "a very unpleasant day;" "the most unpleasant we ever saw." But it is plain that none of these expressions give an exact idea of the nature of the... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 páginas
...other in the matter of climate, — we have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — " It is a fine day ; " " it is a very fine day ; " "it is the fines! day we have seen ; " or, " it is an unpleasant day;" "a very unpleasant day;" "the most unpleasant... | |
| 1888 - 744 páginas
...other in the matter of climate — we have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — "It is a fine...superlative expressions are generally untrue. I once heard a gentleman remark, on a rainy, snowy, windy and (in the ordinary English language) indescribable day,... | |
| Angus Evan Abbott - 1893 - 508 páginas
...each other in the matter of climate, we have but half-a-dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — " It is a fine...superlative expressions are generally untrue. I once heard a gentleman remark, on a rainy, snowy, windy, and (in the ordinary English language) indescribable day,... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1894 - 464 páginas
...other in the matter of climate, — we have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say, " It is a fine day ; " " It is a very fine day ; " " It is thefinest day we have seen ; " or, "It is an unpleasant 'day ; " " A very unpleasant day ; " " The... | |
| Angus Evan Abbott - 1909 - 470 páginas
...each other in the matter of climate, we have but half-a-dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — " It is a fine day;" " It is a very fine day;" " It is \\\e finest day we have seen;" or, "It is an unpleasant day;" "A very unpleasant day;" "The most unpleasant... | |
| Gregg Camfield - 1997 - 255 páginas
...other in the matter of climate, — we have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — "It is a fine...superlative expressions are generally untrue. I once heard a gentleman remark, on a rainy, snowy, windy and (in the ordinary English language) indescribable day,... | |
| John Phoenix - 2008 - 698 páginas
...in the matter of climate, • — we have but half a dozen expressions to convey to one another our ideas of this inequality. We say — " It is a fine...have seen ;" or, " It is an unpleasant day ;" " A rery unpleasant day ;" " The most unpleasant day we ever saw." But it is plain, that none of these... | |
| |