 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...  The Chautauquan - Page 374redigeeritud poolt - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 lehte
...man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his own house. ' There is,' he says, 'some of 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 lehte
...Independence Day — his mansion was ready for occupation. " There is some of the same fitness," he thinks, " in a man's building his own house that there is in...their own hands, and provided food for themselves and their families simply and honestly enough, the poetic faculty would be universally developed, as birds... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 lehte
...had purchased the boards of an Irishman's shanty, and exults as he looks on his finished work, that ' there is some of the same fitness in a man's building...that there is in a bird's building its own nest.' And a right trim firm little abode it was, with its one cheerful window and detached offices, if we... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 lehte
...had purchased the boards of an Irishman's shanty, and exults as he looks on his finished work, that ' there is some of the same fitness in a man's building...that there is in a bird's building its own nest.' And a right trim firm little abode it was, with its one cheerful window and detached offices, if we... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 lehte
...raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a man's building...there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows bnt if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and families... | |
 | 1877 - 832 lehte
...raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a man's building...there is in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows 613 but if men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves and... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1879 - 362 lehte
...house where a woodchuck had formerly dug its burrow, down through sumach and blackberry roots. He says, who knows but if men constructed their dwellings with...as birds universally sing when they are so engaged. He also says, to maintain oneself on this earth is not a hardship but a pleasure, if we live simply... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 lehte
...raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a man's building...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 lehte
...raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a man's building...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 lehte
...raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. There is some of the same fitness in a man's building...in a bird's building its own nest. Who knows but if f~~~ men constructed their dwellings with their own hands, and provided food for themselves '» and... | |
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