 ... else an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food and without motion for three years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day...  Gleanings in Bee Culture - Pagina 4781905Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pagini
...without motion for three years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the learned, what surmises ! — what investigations ! Amongst the vulgar, what eager curiosity... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pagini
...without motion for three years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the learned, what surmises ! — what investigations ! Amongst the vulgar, what eager curiosity... | |
 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 pagini
...longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, — struggle through its earthly covering, and start into day a winged bird: — What, think you, would be the sensation excited by the strange piece of intelligence ? — After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment... | |
 | James Wilson, James Duncan - 1834 - 382 pagini
...without motion for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ?" Yet the difference which exists between the sometimes repulsive aspect of a creeping caterpillar... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - 1835 - 332 pagini
...without motion, for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silk en cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! — among the learned what surmises ! what investigations ! — among the vulgar what eager curiosity!... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pagini
...its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird;—what, think you, would be the sensation excited by this...were dispelled, what astonishment, would succeed! amongst the learned what surmises ! what investigations ! among the vulgar, what eager curiosity !... | |
 | William Chambers - 1842 - 438 pagini
...without motion for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird — what would be the sensation excited by this piece of intelligence !" This is one of the many instances in... | |
 | Mary Townsend - 1844 - 260 pagini
...without motion, for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...think you, would be the sensation excited by this intelligence?" Yet these changes are constantly going on in the insect world. From the egg deposited... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pagini
...without motion for three years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the learned, what surmises ! — what investigations ! Amongst the vulgar, what eager curiosity... | |
 | 1848 - 910 pagini
...food and motion for three years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ?" — Kirby and Spcnce — Entomology. Wonderful and incredible as this story would seem, it ¡s but... | |
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