 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 pages
...has not prepared us ? I HAVE read somewhere a story about a race of ephemeral insects who live but an hour. To those who are born in the early morning...gathering force, and only their descendants live on to midday; while it is another race which sees the sun decline, from that which saw him rise. Imagine... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 pages
...import will ever be salutary : — " We have read somewhere of a race of ephemeral insects who live but an hour. To those who are born in the early morning,...sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age while its beams are yet gathering force, and only their descendants live on to mid-day ; while it is another... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 516 pages
...import will ever be salutary : — " We have read somewhere of a race of ephemeral insects who live but an hour. To those who are born in the early morning,...sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age while its beams are yet gathering force, and only their descendants live on to mid-day ; while it is another... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 pages
...import will ever be salutary :— " We have read somewhere of a race of ephemeral insects who live but an hour. To those who are born in the early morning,...sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age while its beams are yet gathering force, and only their descendants live on to mid-day; while it is another... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 586 pages
...of ephemeral insects 406. A parawho live but an hour. To those who are born in the early ble on the morning the sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age while the sun's beams are yet gathering force, and only their descendants live on to midday ; while it is... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 584 pages
...of ephemeral insects 406. A parawho live but an hour. To those who are born in the early !"le on the morning the sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age of man while the sun's beams are yet gathering force, and only their descendants live on to midday... | |
 | Allegheny Observatory - 1910 - 560 pages
...ago," a beautiful illustration of the life history of man as compared to that of the stars: — "I have read somewhere a story about a race of ephemeral...gathering force, and only their descendants live on to midday; while it is another race which sees the Sun decline, from that which saw him rise. Imagine... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black, Herbert Francis Wright - 1927 - 844 pages
...Astronomy: We have read somewhere of a race of ephemeral insects who live but an hour. To those who ace born in the early morning the sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age while the sun's beams are yet gathering forcp, and only their descendants live on to midday; while it is... | |
 | 1928 - 272 pages
...Langley in his The New Astronomy; We have read somewhere of a race of ephemeral insects who live but an hour. To those who are born in the early morning...sunrise is the time of youth. They die of old age while the sun's beams are yet gathering forco, and only their descendants live on to midday; while it is... | |
 | William Wallace Payne, Herbert C. Wilson, Curvin Henry Gingrich - 1906 - 696 pages
...ago," a beautiful illustration of the life history of man as compared to that of the stars: — "I have read somewhere a story about a race of ephemeral...gathering force, and only their descendants live on to midday; while it is another race which sees the Sun decline, from that which saw him rise. Imagine... | |
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... decline from that which saw it rise. Imagine the sun about to set, and the whole nation of mites gathered under the shadow of some mushroom (to them ancient as the sun itself... 