 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...mankind, as they had before fpread defolation among the lower * *"* * OF SERPENTS. 181 ranks of nature. We are told that, while Regulus led his army along...banks of the river Bagrada in Africa, an enormous ferpent difputed his paffage over. We are allured by Pliny, who fays that he himfclf faw the fkin,... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1793 - 418 pages
...enlightened antiquity, we find thcfe animals lefs formidable, as being attacked in a more fuccefsful manner. We are told, that while Regulus led his army along...banks of the river Bagrada, in Africa, an enormous ferpent difputed his paflage over. We are aflured by Pliny, who fays, that he himfelf faw the /kin,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 pages
...enlightened antiquity, we find thefe animals lefs formidable, as being attacked in a more fuccelsful manner. We are told, that while Regulus led his army along...banks of the river Bagrada in Africa, an enormous ierpent difputed his paflage over. We are aflured by Pliny, that it was i zo feet long, and that it... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...enlightened antiquity, we find thefe animals lefs formidable, as being attacked in a more fuccefsful manner. We are told, that while Regulus led his army along...banks of the river Bagrada in Africa, an enormous ferpent difputed his paflage over. We are affured by Pliny, that it was i 2O feet long, and that it... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...considerable inland navigation Adam Smith. AFRICAN SERPENT. We are told that while Regulus, the Roman general, led his army along the banks of the river Bagrada...who says that he himself saw the skin, that it was an hundred and twenty feet long, and that it had destroyed many of the army. At last, however, the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pages
...navigation.' — Main Smith. AFRICAN SERPENT. 'We are told that while Regulus, the -Roman general, led his army along the banks of the river Bagrada...who says that he himself saw the Skin, that it was an hundred and twenty feet long, and that it had destroyed many of the army. At last, however, the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 414 pages
...histories of antiquity exhibit a nation sinking under the ravages of a serpent, v. 328 — Regulus leading his army along the banks of the river Bagrada, in Africa, an enormous serpent disputed the passage ; its skin was a hundred and twenty feet long— marks distinguishing them from the rest... | |
 | 1823 - 936 pages
...enlightened antiquity, we find these animals less formidable, as beina; attacked in a more successful manner. We are told, that while Regulus led his army along...an enormous serpent disputed his passage over. We areassured by Pliny, that it was I2O feet long, and that it had destroyed many of the army. At last,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...enlightened antiquity, we find these animals less formidable, as being attacked in a more successful manner. We are told^ that while Regulus led his army along...it was a hundred and twenty feet long, and that it bad destroyed many of the army. At last, however, the battering engines were brought out against it;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 440 pages
...Histories of antiquity exhibit a nation sinking under the ravages of a serpent, 394. Regulus leading his army along the banks of the river Bagrada, in Africa, an enormous serpent disputed the passage; its skin was a hundred and twenty feet long; marks distinguishing them from the rest of... | |
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But as we descend into more enlightened antiquity, we find these animals less formidable, as being attacked in a more successful manner. We are told^ that while Regulus led his army along the banks of the river Bagrada in Africa, an enormous serpent disputed... 
