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Download or read book The One hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains three poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Download or read book The Wonderful One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book The Wonderful One Hoss Shay and Other Poems written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-horse shay is a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. The body is chairlike in shape and has one seat for passengers positioned above the axle which is hung by leather braces from wooden springs connected to the shafts. The one-horse shay is an American adaptation, originating in Union, Maine, of the French chaise. The one-horse shay is colloquially known in the US as a 'one-hoss shay'. A smaller and more lightly constructed version of the one-horse shay is called a chair or 'whiskey' because it can "whisk" around other carriages and pass them quickly.American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. memorialized the shay in his satirical poem. "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay". In the poem, a fictional deacon crafts the titular wonderful one-hoss shay in such a logical way that it could not break down. The shay is constructed from the very best of materials so that each part is as strong as every other part. In Holmes' humorous, yet "logical", twist, the shay endures for a hundred years (amazingly to the precise moment of the 100th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake shock) then it "went to pieces all at once, and nothing first, -- just as bubbles do when they burst". It was built in such a "logical way" that it ran for exactly one hundred years to the day. In economics, the term "one-hoss shay" is used, following the scenario in Holmes' poem, to describe a model of depreciation, in which a durable product delivers the same services throughout its lifetime before failing with zero scrap value. A chair is a common example of such a product.
Download or read book The Wonderful One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic American poem tells the story of a carriage, built so perfectly that it lasts exactly one hundred years before falling to pieces all at once. Holmes' clever poem is a witty satire on human mortality and the fallibility of all things, and has delighted readers for generations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Holmes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" is a perfectly intelligible conception, whatever material difficulties it presents. It is conceivable that a being of an order superior to humanity should so understand the conditions of matter that he could construct a machine which should go to pieces, if not into its constituent atoms, at a given moment of the future. The mind may take a certain pleasure in this picture of the impossible. The event follows as a logical consequence of the presupposed condition of things. Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894) American physician, poet, and humorist notable for his medical research and teaching, and as the author of the "Breakfast-Table" series of essays. There is a practical lesson to be got out of the story. Observation shows us in what point any particular mechanism is most likely to give way. In a wagon, for instance, the weak point is where the axle enters the hub or nave. When the wagon breaks down, three times out of four, I think, it is at this point that the accident occurs. The workman should see to it that this part should never give way; then find the next vulnerable place, and so on, until he arrives logically at the perfect result attained by the deacon. The localities referred to are those with which I am familiar in my drives about Essex County.
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Download or read book The One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.
Download or read book The One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it-ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, - Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Georgius Secundus was then alive, - Snuffy old drone from the German hive; That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss-sha
Download or read book The One Hoss Shay written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poem "The Deacon's masterpiece," a satire on Calvinism, paints a whimsical picture of a "one-hoss" shay that was so perfectly built that it lasted for 100 years and then fell apart all at once.
Download or read book The One Hoss Shay with Its Companion Poems How the Old Horse Won the Bet The Broomstick Train written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonderful One Hoss Shay Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly of September 1858 and Other Poems Classic Reprint written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wonderful "One-Hoss-Shay" (Reprinted From the Atlantic Monthly of September, 1858) And Other Poems About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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