 A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season; a flight of locusts, or an inundation, desolates a district ; a trifling chemical change in an edible root, starves a million of people.  Dangers of the Apostolic Age - Стр. 144авторы: James Moorhouse - 1903 - Страниц: 225Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - Страниц: 280
...the poor with the same accompaniments of stripping, wounding, and killing as their human antitypes. Everything in short, which the worst men commit either...is perpetrated on a larger scale by natural agents. Nature has Noyades more fatal than those of Carrier; her explosions of fire damp are as destructive... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - Страниц: 328
...which we live ; and Nature does this too on the largest scale and with the most callous indifference. A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season;...locusts, or an inundation, desolates a district ; a trilling chemical change in an edible root, starves a million of people. The waves of the sea, like... | |
 | 1875 - Страниц: 620
...whose death is a relief to themselves, or a blessing to those under their noxious influence. . . . Everything, in short, which the worst men commit either...is perpetrated on a larger scale by natural agents. Nature has Noyades more fatal than those of Carrier ; her explosions of fire-damp are as destructive... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1876 - Страниц: 264
...which we live ; and Nature does this too on the largest scale and with the most callous indifference. A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season...change in an edible root starves a million of people. The waves of the sea like banditti seize and appropriate the wealth of the rich, and the little all... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1876 - Страниц: 262
...which we live ; and Nature does this too on the largest scale and with the most callous indifference. A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season...change in an edible root starves a million of people. The waves of the sea like banditti seize and appropriate the wealth of the rich, and the little all... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - Страниц: 452
...which we live; and Nature does this, too, on the largest scale and with the most callous indifference. A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season...change in an edible root starves a million of people. The waves of the sea, like banditti, seize and appropriate the wealth of the rich and the little all... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - Страниц: 450
...which we live; and Nature does this, too, on the largest scale and with the most callous indifference. A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season...change in an edible root starves a million of people. The waves of the sea, like banditti, seize and appropriate the wealth of the rich and the little all... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - Страниц: 466
...the poor with the same accompaniments of stripping, wounding, and killing, as their human antitypes. Everything, in short, which the worst men commit either...is perpetrated on a larger scale by natural agents. Nature has noyades more fatal than those of Carrier ; her explosions of fire-damp are as destructive... | |
 | David Thomas - 1878 - Страниц: 444
...which we live ; and nature does this, too, on the largest scale and with the most callous indifference. A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season...change in an edible root starves a million of people. The waves of the sea, like banditti, seize and appropriate the wealth of the rich and the little all... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1879 - Страниц: 304
...themselves, or a blessing to those under their noxious influence. Such are Nature's dealings with life... A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season...of people ; everything, in short, which the worst of men commit either against life or property, is perpetrated on a larger scale by natural agents.... | |
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