 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pagina’s
...cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud, and are silent, pray do "not imagine that those who make the noise are the ONLY INHABITANTS of the field ; that, of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pagina’s
...cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,... | |
 | 1812 - 540 pagina’s
...own simile), repose beneath the shadow of the British oak, and chew the cud and be silent, despising the little, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. Retreating from a scene of exertion, in which his value was so ill appreciated, he set about proving... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pagina’s
...cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pagina’s
...reposed beneath the shadows of the British oak, chew their cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,... | |
 | Ferris Pell - 1819 - 202 pagina’s
...chink, whilst thousands of great " cattle repose in the shade and are silent, pray do not " imagine, that those who make the noise, are the only " inhabitants of the field ; that of course they are many " in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the " little,... | |
 | Timothy Touchstone (pseud.) - 1820 - 82 pagina’s
...reposing be" neath the shadow of the British oak, ." chew the cud, and are silent, pray do " not imagine that those who make the <; noise are the only inhabitants of the " field; that, of course, they are many in "number; or that, after all, they are " other than the little, shrivelled,... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pagina’s
...cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cnd and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course there are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,... | |
 | Robert James Turnbull - 1827 - 180 pagina’s
...reposed beneath the shadow of the native Live oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise, are the only inhabitants of the field ; or that of course, they are many in number; or that after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled,... | |
 | 1833 - 684 pagina’s
...reposed beneath the shadows of the British oak, chew their cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled,... | |
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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the... 
