 But there is a frightful interval between the seed and timber. He that calculates the growth of trees, has the unwelcome remembrance of the shortness of life driven hard upon him. He knows that he is doing what will never benefit himself; and when he...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - 197 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1792 - 235 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 ページ
...Georgick writers prescribe to planters. Trees certainly have covered the earth with very little culture. They wave their tops among the rocks of Norway, and...Hebrides. But there is a frightful interval between the seed and timber. He that calculates the growth of trees, has the unwelcome remembrance of the shortness... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1927 - 436 ページ
...gloom of desolation." ' ' Why not plant trees ? They wave their tops, ' ' he declares rhetorically, " among the rocks of Norway, and might thrive as well in the Highlands and Hebrides." But, he goes on to say, the cost of enclosures and the care required by judicious cultivation act as deterrents.... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 ページ
...it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. Hazlitt, SA, 336. HE that calculates the growth of trees, has the unwelcome remembrance of the shortness of life driven hard upon him. Dr. Johnson, W, X, 490. IN seventy or eighty years, a man may... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 ページ
...georgic writers prescribe to planters. Trees certainly have covered the earth with very little culture : they wave their tops among the rocks of Norway, and...might thrive as well in the Highlands and Hebrides.'* And if men of fortune, among ourselves, can once be persuaded that the timber wanted for the British... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 ページ
...time consciousness that poverty enforces in Scotland: [T]here is a frightful interval between the seed and timber. He that calculates the growth of trees, has the unwelcome remembrance of the shortness of life driven hard upon him. . . . Plantation is naturally the employment of a mind unburdened... | |
 | Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 ページ
...grow."43 Johnson commented on the same phenomenon thus: But there is a frightful interval between the seed and timber. He that calculates the growth of trees, has the unwelcome remembrance of the shortness of life driven hard upon him. He knows that he is doing what will never benefit himself;... | |
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