 At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see,...  Feline Philosophy - Página 52por Walter Léon Hess - 1891 - 60 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Donald Hall - 1985 - 266 páginas
...chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,—...when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. The Height of the Ridiculous I wrote some lines once on a time In... | |
 | D. H. Kaelble - 1985 - 308 páginas
...chaise in a heap or mound, You see, of course, if you-re not a dunce, Now it went to pieces at once,All at once, and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst. *Exerpts from a poem by Oliver Wendell Molmes, in "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," pp. 252-256,... | |
 | S.F. Spicker, S.R. Ingman, Ian Lawson - 1987 - 340 páginas
...caused by senescence itself. This explains why the "Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Went to pieces all at once, All at once, and nothing first, IMPLICATIONS An evolutionary perspective on aging has important implications for basic attitudes and... | |
 | Steven I. Subotnick - 1991 - 436 páginas
...minutes a day until better with: Topical Arnica or topical Traumeel cream. Chapter 1 2 KNEE INJURIES It went to pieces all at once — all at once and nothing first. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Structure and Function of the Knee The knee is one of the largest joints... | |
 | Steven Vogel - 1992 - 328 páginas
...perfectly that no part is disproportionately durable. It lasts 100 years and a day and then; well, then "It went to pieces all at once, All at once, and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst." If the evolutionary process could have aspirations, that would be an appropriate one. The issue can... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 páginas
...mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce. How it went to pieces all at once, — AH at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do...when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. THOMAS HOOD (1799-1845) one who spat more blood and made more puns... | |
 | Jim Moore - 1996 - 230 páginas
...with a bent and twisted mass of aluminum scrap. Like "The One-Hoss Shay" of Oliver Wendell Holmes, "it went to pieces all at once — all at once and...nothing first — just as bubbles do when they burst." Unlike that stormy night in the South Atlantic when the pole had first broken, this time it did not... | |
 | Edward J. Ingebretsen - 1996 - 284 páginas
...determinism of Edwards's theological system. He allegorizes it as a "One-Hoss Shay," a carriage that "went to pieces all at once, — / All at once, and...nothing first, — / Just as bubbles do when they burst."60 And even William James had opinions about Edwards. In The Varieties of Religious Experience,... | |
 | Ewan A. Byars, Tony McNulty - 1997 - 144 páginas
...one-hoss shay 'that was built in such a logical way, it ran for one hundred years to a day' and then 'went to pieces all at once, all at once and nothing first, just as bubbles do when they burst' would probably not be acceptable to the owners of most concrete structures. Indeed, even if desirable,... | |
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