A Sheaf of Papers
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150421112
Paperback|9781150421112
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... A CRUISE OF THE "ALICE." TT is not birds only who have an instinct for building. Their lives, shorter than mans, condemn them to an annual display of architectural skill; and some of them, like the Australian bower-bird, seem to have in their breasts something more than the mere instinct of building a home to dwell in, --the element of taste in the adorning of that home, --for they even include in their notion what answers to our park or garden, --a place for exercise and luxurious repose. What one reads of their taste has a striking analogy to the longing of man to adorn as well as build his nest; and it is with delighted surprise that we hear of the relish of ornament in these little creatures, --a gusto, a preference for the beautiful, showing once more the wide solidarity of all living things. Some one has said that every man should have in his life the experience of building, at least once; and indeed, here in America, where ancestral homes are not largely provided, many persons, if not all, do build, and that not once only, but some many times. To be sure, Dr. Holmess charming "Chambered Nautilus," which builds its annual cell, may find its parallel in the May flight of unhappy New Yorkers to their new annual nests; and to build a home upon the deep, a cottage with a keel, or three-storied argosy for long marine flights, is the happy lot of not so many; but of late 3rears, in our land, people of means have seemed to feel keenly the activity of this desire. Whole fleets of pleasure-boats and stately yachts move like sea-birds in and out of the indentations of our coast. The owner of the "Alice" felt himself bitten by this gad-fly of construction in the year 1866. He said to himself, "I will not take the leavings of some fatigued New...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150421112 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150421118 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.36 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 154 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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