The History of a Mouthful of Bread: And Its Effect on the Organization of Men and AnimalsAmerican News Company, 1866 - 398 páginas |
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The History of a Mouthful of Bread: And Its Effect on the Organization of ... Jean Mace Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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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 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. Our feet, which have other things to do than to pick up apples or lay hold of a fork, our feet have also each five fingers, but the largest cannot face the others ; it is not a thumb, therefore, and it is because of this that our feet are...
Página 20 - ... 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. The thumb is placed in such a manner on...
Página 20 - Without the thumb three-fourths (at least) of human arts would yet have to be invented ; and to begin with, the art not only of carrying the contents of one's plate to one's mouth, but of filling the plate (a very important question in another way) would, but for the thumb, have had difficulties to surmount of which you can form no idea. Have you noticed that when you want to take hold of anything (a piece of bread, we will say, as we are on the subject of eating), have you noticed that it is always...
Página 4 - 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. Mace 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 3 - ... comprehension, and adapted to the tastes of a child, is pretty nearly incalculable. The quaintness and drollery of the illustrations, with which difficult scientific facts are set forth, will provoke many a smile, no doubt, and in some young people perhaps a tendency to feel themselves treated babyishly ; but, if in the course of the babyish treatment they find themselves almost unexpectedly becoming masters of an amount of valuable information on very difficult subjects, they will have nothing...
Página 155 - The next time you see a roasting piece of veal on the table, look well at it, and yoii will see at the end a white substance which crackles under your teeth ; that is gristle.
Página 20 - Have you noticed that when you want to take hold of 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...
Página 19 - AT the foot of the mountains, from whence I write to you, my dear child, when we want to show the country to a stranger, we commence by making him climb one of the heights, whence he may take in at a glance the whole landscape below, all the woods and villages scattered over the plain, even up to the blue line of the Rhine, which stretches out to the distant horizon. After this lie will easily find his way about.