 Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year...  Essays - Página 86por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 páginas
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insuranceoffice increases the number... | |
 | William Safire - 2008 - 888 páginas
...debilitating effect of civilization on man: "A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky." (For a parallel metaphor in Pilgrim's Progress, see MUCKRAKER.) Lord Bryce, in The American Commonwealth,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 páginas
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston - 1846 - 540 páginas
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich Nautical Almanac he has, and so, being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows a little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books... | |
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