 The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first, it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became...  The Natural History of Insects - Seite 247von James Rennie - 1829 - 352 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1804 - 174 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years;...a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ;...a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years.;...a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 514 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years;...year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. 1 have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach... | |
 | 1821 - 384 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ;...a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which . grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web ; but at last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ;...a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...•ctual and impotent struggles, the capsled all it« strength, and then he betain and easy conquest. aker. Where have you been, boy 7 I have been seeking...been saying such comfortable things. Ah! he's an exam leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at lost... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 440 Seiten
...amongst other curious mis-statements respecting a house-spider which he himself observed, asserts that it "lived three years, every year it changed its skin,...: I have sometimes plucked off a limb, which grew * Ponnet, (Euvres, vol. ii. p. 18, f J- Rt INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS. again in two or three days." The... | |
 | 1834 - 222 Seiten
...among other curious mistatements respecting a house-spider which he himself observed, asserts that it "lived three years, every year it changed its skin,...off a limb, which grew again in two or three days." The fact is, that few spiders live one year, much less three; and all their changes of skin are gone... | |
 | 1835 - 430 Seiten
...struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then he becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ;...and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked ofl'a leg, which grew again in two or three i!ays. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but... | |
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