 ... shaped his course towards the nearest tree. But if I put him upon a smooth and well-trodden part of the road, he appeared to be in trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the back of a chair; and after getting all his legs in a line upon the...  The London Magazine - Pàgina 3451826Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 pàgines
...trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the back of a chair ; and after getting all his legs in a line upon the topmost part of it, he would hang...whole life in the trees, and never leaves them but throiigh force, or by accident. An all-ruling Providence has ordered man to tread on the surface of... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1828 - 362 pàgines
...trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the back of a chair : and after getting all his legs in a line upon the topmost part of it, he would hang...him. - The sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole THIRD * JOURNEY. life in trees, and never leaves them but through force, or by accident. An all-ruling... | |
 | 1830 - 584 pàgines
...trouble and distress. His favourite abode was the back of a chair ; and, after getting all his legs in a line upon the top-most part of it, he would hang there for hours together. The sloth, in its wild state, spends . its whole life in the trees, and never leaves them but through... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 pàgines
...he would hang there for hours together. c ( often, with a low and inward cry, would seem to invite* to take notice of him. " The Sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole life s the trees, and never leaves them but through force or incident. An all-ruling Providence has ordained... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1839 - 322 pàgines
...trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the back of a chair; and after getting all his legs in a line upon the topmost part of it, he would hang...sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole life in trees, and never leaves them but through force, or by accident. An all-ruling Providence has ordered... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 pàgines
...in trouble and distress: his favourite abode was the back of a chair; and after getting all his legs in a line upon the topmost part of it, he would hang...inward cry, would seem to invite me to take notice of him.'—(p. 164.) The sloth, in its wild state, spends its life in tree?, and never leaves them but... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pàgines
...well-trodden part of the road, he appeared to be in trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the topmost part of it, he would hang there for hours together, and often, with a low and inward cry, wouhl веет to invite me to take notice of him.' — (p. 164.) The sloth, in its wild state, spends... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 pàgines
...trouble and distress : his favorite abode was on the back of a chair ; and after getting all his legs in a line upon the topmost part of it, he would hang...would seem to invite me to take notice of him." The same author thus describes an adventure with a sloth : " One day, as we were crossing the Essequibo,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pàgines
...appeared to be in trouble and distress: his favourite abode was the topmost part of it, ho would hong there for hours together, and often, with a low and...cry, would seem to invite me to take notice of him.' — (p. 164.) The sloth, in its wild state, spends its life in trees, and never leaves them but from... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pàgines
...trouble and distress : his favourite abode was the back of a chair ; and, after getting all his legs in a line upon the topmost part of it, he would hang...Sloth, in its wild state, spends its whole life in trees, and never leaves them but through force, or by accident. An all-ruling Providence has ordered... | |
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