Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of Fifty-Two Weeks Among Insects, Birds and Flowers - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
As to the assumptive tone of my title, I would add a few words. The term sharp eyes is, after all, but relative. There are degrees of sharpness of vision even as there are degrees of blindness. An eye may be sharp for birds but blind to botany; keen for Indian arrow-heads and dull to entomology, but never omniscient ;or, as Thoreau figuratively but forcibly puts it, a man absorbed in the study of grasses tramples down oaks unwittingly in his walks. Thus, if the expression of these pages shall appear somewhat pedagogic, the critical reader will bear in mind that they were not intended for the scientist nor zoologist, nor, of course, for eyes sharper than my own in these especial fields. Prompted originally by the numerous juvenile correspondence, and prepared for the columns of a young peoples journal, any inference of conscious didacticism in the author may perhaps best be met in the apology of the old Roman proverb: Inter caecos regnat luscus among the blind, a one-eyed man is king. I ndeed, are we not all relatively blind? Is not the sharpest eye continually reminded of how blind it was but yesterday? Truly speaks Fra Lippo Lippi: We re made so, that we love First, when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see an axiom which needs no emphasizing, being borne out in every ones
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Sharp Eyes: A Rambler s Calendar of Fifty-T wo Weeks A mong I nsects, Birds and Flowers was written by W. Hamilton Gibson in 1900. This is a 344 page book, containing 60476 words and 290 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.
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