 On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current ; but they still lord it in the thought and action of every civilized man.  Library Journal - Page 235edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1886 - 284 pages
...empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current ; but they still lord it... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - Poets, American - 1887 - 346 pages
...empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger tip, and neither of them figures in the prices current, but they still lord it... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 338 pages
...empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a fingertip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current ; but they still lord it... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 334 pages
...empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumh, Athens with a fingertip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current ; but they still... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1891 - 390 pages
...and that bigness was not greatness. They realized that, as a later Puritan, Mr. Lowell, has said : "On a map of the world, you may cover Judea with your thumb, and Athens with a finger-tip; neither of them figures in the Prices Current; but they still rule in the thought and action of every civilized... | |
 | New England Society in the City of Brooklyn - 1895 - 418 pages
...The value of a country," said Lowell, " is weighed in scales more delicate than the balance of trade. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger tip, and neither of them figures in the prices current, yet they still live in... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - Authors, American - 1895 - 372 pages
...empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with, a finger tip, and neither of them figures in the prices current, but they still lord it... | |
 | John George Bourinot - Canada - 1898 - 124 pages
...empty now, bat the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current; but they still lord it... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - Education - 1900 - 1068 pages
...empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb and Athens with a finger-tip and neither of them figures in the prices current; but they still lord it in the thought and action... | |
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