The History of a Mouthful of Bread: And Its Effect on the Organization of Men and AnimalsHarper & Brothers, 1868 - 398 páginas |
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Página 237 - Suppose the fishes to be very, very small, as email as a grain of sand, and closely crowded together through the whole depth of the stream, the water would look red, would it not? And this is the way In which the blood looks red : only observe one thing ; a grain of sand is a mountain in comparison with the little red bodies that float in the blood, which we have likened to little fishes.
Página 104 - Ms wealth not by millions only, but by hundreds of millions and more ; who was, in fact, so tremendously rich that he did not know what to do with his money — a difficulty in which nobody had ever been before.
Página 20 - ... anything (a bit of bread, we will say), have you noticed that it is always the thumb who puts himself forward, and that he is always on one side by himself, whilst the rest of the fingers are on the other? If the thumb is not helping, nothing stops in your hand, and you don't know what to . do with it. Try, by way of experiment, to carry your spoon to your mouth without putting your thumb to it, and you will see what a long time it will take you to get through a poor little plateful of broth....
Página 21 - Our hands owe their perfection of usefulness to this happy arrangement, which has been bestowed on no other animal, except the monkey, our nearest neighbor. I may even add, while we are about it, that it is this which distinguishes the hand from a paw or a foot. My foot, which has other things to do than to pick up apples, or lay hold of a fork, has also five fingers, but the largest cannot face the others; it is not a thumb, therefore, and it is because of this, that my foot is not a hand.
Página 247 - It is also dangerous to shew him his greatness without pointing out his baseness. It is more dangerous still to leave him in ignorance of both. But it is greatly for his advantage to have both set before him.
Página 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for tho Southern District of New York.
Página 4 - The Stomach,' ' Atmospheric Pressure," no matter which, — and see how much they can understand of it without an amount of preliminary instruction which would require half a year's study ; and they will then thoroughly appreciate the quite marvellous ingenuity and beautiful skill with which M. Mac6 has brought the great leading anatomical and physical facts out of the depths of scientific learning, and made them literally comprehensible to a child.
Página 237 - ... water would look red, would it not? And this is the way In which the blood looks red : only observe one thing ; a grain of sand is a mountain in comparison with the little red bodies that float in the blood, which we have likened to little fishes. If I were to tell you they measured about the...
Página 51 - ... they have but little resisting power, possess only small and short roots ; whereas the canines, whose duty it is to tear the food sideways, would run the risk of being dragged out and left sticking in the substances they are at work upon, if they were not well secured ; these, therefore, have roots which go much deeper into the jaw, and in consequence of this they give us more pain than the others when...
Página 45 - The next sort are those little pointed teeth, which come after the incisors, on each side of both jaws. You will easily find them ; and if you press against them a little, you will feel their points. If we call the first set the knives of the mouth, we may call these its forks. They serve to pierce whatever requires to be torn, and they are called canine teeth, from the Latin word canis, a dog, because dogs make great use of them in tearing their food.