He speaks of Aristotle and Augustine; but he makes me think of the sloth and tyranny in the castle, and the misery and oppression in the peasant's hut, which are to me what Aristotle and the schoolmen are to him.
He would rather be burned on live coals, than sleep away the precious years thus, half alive, in sloth and ease.
And yet, from what Ulrich gathered further from him of his daily life, his "sloth and ease" would seem arduous toil to most men.
But in avoiding rigorous severity, they have not fallen into sloth or luxury.
Sloth and torpor are as harmful to spiritual progress as evil desires and as often reprimanded.
Slavery and mental sloth have indeed scarred him with their fell stigmata.
Nothing is more certain than that exercises in general, diversions, such as that of hunting, and the games of dexterity, keep up the natural standard of strength and beauty, which luxury and sloth are sure to debase.
Sprat had studied a polite style much: But there was little strength in it: He had the beginnings of learning laid well in him: But he has allowed himself in a course of some years in much sloth and too many liberties.
The head of the sloth is short, the face small and round, the hair coarse and shaggy.
Place the sloth out of its natural position, and, as would be the case with other animals, it finds itself in a difficulty.
When sleeping, the sloth does not hang head downwards, like the vampire, but supports itself from the branch parallel to the earth.
Hence the three-toed sloth has obtained the name of the ai.
In one of their voyages, he and Mr Wallace saw a sloth (Bradypus infuscatus) swimming across a river, at a place where it was probably three hundred yards broad.
The sloth is formed to pass its time in trees, and to feed on the superabundant leaves, which would otherwise impede the circulation of the air, retard their growth, or bring on premature decay.
Memoir on the Extinct Sloth Tribe of North America"--'Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.
Description of the Skeleton of an Extinct Gigantic Sloth (Mylodon robtutus).
He studied these bones with much care, and recognized at once in the megatherium a great similarity in structure to the sloth he had seen in Brazil.
Fair nephew, I bethought me that my riches would avail little if through sloth I failed to reward the good service of these my knights, who have made me everywhere to be obeyed and honoured.
Over the whole continent of South America the sun of May rose resplendent, awakening enslaved peoples from the slothin which they wallowed, calling upon them to claim their place among the nations.
Let us all shake off dull sloth and make a tour right round the gardens.
Fate would not so be pacified; nor would Providence sanction this shrinkingsloth and cowardly indolence.
I think often with Coleridge: Sloth jaundiced all: and from my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls like hour-glass sand.
I have always reproached myself as sorely amenable to the condemnations of a very fine poem by Barberino, On Sloth against Sin, which I translated in the Dante volume.
Of pride and claret, sloth and venison full, Yon prelate mark, right reverend and dull!
Hookham and Carpenter both are As cautious as caution can be; While Andrews, nor Chapple, a sloth are In trade, both as lib'ral as free.
Naturalists during many centuries, made the whole history of the mole a piece of guesswork, and no creature except the Sloth or the Earwig has ever been more generally misrepresented.
Tax not my sloththat I Fold my arms beside the brook; Each cloud that floated in the sky Writes a letter in my book.
And then what journeys some of the poor animals would have to make; the kangaroo back to Australia, the sloth to South America, the polar bear to the extreme north.
Some species could be found only in very remote places--the kangaroo only in Australia, the sloth only in South America, the polar bear only in the Arctic regions.
A tapir has been found the size of an elephant; and a species of the sloth tribe as long as a rhinoceros!
The leaves and fruits of trees are intended as food for some animals, such as the Sloth and Squirrel; the latter of which has feet adapted for climbing.
But these are paradoxes they must use Their sloth and bolder ignorance t'excuse.
At this glad triumph, when most poets use Their quill, I did not bridle up my Muse For sloth or less devotion.
I cannot seal a welcome with an oath To those whose absence I had rather have; 320 Nor venture hundreds at that paper-sloth Of mistress Is'bel and the Pennell-knave.
To a man possessed of the active energies of Pizarro, sloth was the greatest evil.
We have already seen how the warlike character of so many monarchs gives the lie to these statements, so far as they tax the Assyrian kings with sloth and idleness.
And yet the matins in every parish is neither begun so early nor so long in the saying as it is in the Charter house you know well; and yet at the sloth and gluttony of us, who are lay people, he can wink and fan himself asleep.
On the ground under the hanging beds lay woven grass mats and hides of the sloth and the jaguar; and in the space inclosed by each trio of hammocks burned a small fire.
