| 1907 - 850 pages
...color Is, and has always been, to a great extent local. The toad beneath the harrow knows Precisely where each tooth -point goes: The butterfly upon the road, Preaches contentment to the toad. Both the butterfly and the toad, thegentleman of England who lives a I home at ease, and... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English Poetry - 1890 - 294 pages
...after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. PAGETT, MP Tin toad beneath the harrow knows Kxactly where each tooth -point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. TDAGETT, MP, was a liar, and a fluent liar therewith, — He spoke of the heat of India as the " Asian... | |
| Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham - Malay language - 1894 - 542 pages
...shoulder which carries it — Pro». Note : This saying has much the same meaning as the verse : — ' The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each...upon the road, Preaches contentment to that toad.' Brau, Chûba tîmbang brat-nya, Weigh it, ascertain its weight. Karâna përkâra ini përkâra iang... | |
| Municipal government - 1917 - 834 pages
...revenue only in municipalities — is extremely discouraging to the confirmed motorist. Kipling says : "The toad beneath the harrow knows, Exactly where each tooth point goes." If I may be allowed to speak for the toad beneath the harrow, let me say that the motorists of California... | |
| Elmer Willis Serl - 1911 - 124 pages
...reminds me that I am too breezily indifferent to reality, and he quotes : "The toad beneath the Iiarrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes. The butterfly...upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad." I grant this, yet ask, "Does it enable the toad to escape the next harrow point, to insist that there... | |
| Literature - 1911 - 850 pages
...must be lashed into subordination. The Toad beneath the barrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that Toad. THE "BOOKMAN Jt D VE K. TI JE K. Ready in January By the Author of "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"... | |
| Congregational churches - 1914 - 844 pages
...sermon through without sleeping. TWENTIETH LINCOLN MEMORIAL SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1914 Secretary CJ Ryder "The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each...The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to the toad." Old Song. "I would rather make a life than make a living." — Abraham Lincoln. The Sympathy... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the civil service - 1928 - 366 pages
...McREYNOLDS. Generally speaking, that is true. Mr. STEWART. Well, generally speaking, it is ; but as I said : The toad beneath the harrow knows, Exactly where each tooth point goes. We know what happened. Mr. BROWN. I will say this: That if I had anybody on the Personnel Classification... | |
| United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the civil service - 1928 - 302 pages
...McREYNoLDS. Generally speaking, that is true. Mr. STEWART. Well, generally speaking, it is ; but as I said : The toad beneath the harrow knows. Exactly where each tooth point goes. We know what happened. Mr. BROWN. I will say this: That if I had anybody on the Personnel Classification... | |
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