 | Tibullus - 1759 - 468 pages
...refembling facred Groves, Not Parian Pavements, nor gay-gilt Aleoves, Not ly painted, but ftained it. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, there is an Account how the latter Procefs may be performed. Pliny tells us, that Mamurra, who commanded Caefar's Artificers... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...There is to this day a marble chimney-piece at Chatfworth, with the print ofthe toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in which it was found. In...alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm. In the year 1731 there was another found near Nantz, in the heart of an old oak •without the fmallefl... | |
 | William Smellie - 1790 - 576 pages
...they were alive and vigorous. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for the year 1719, we have an account of a toad found alive, and healthy, in the heart of an old elm. Another, in the year 1731, was difcoveredr near Nantz, in the heart of an old oak, without... | |
 | 1790 - 504 pages
...ti^ey were alive and vigorous. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences for the year 1719 we have an account of a toad found alive and healthy in the heart of an old elm. Another, in the year 1731, was discovered near Nantz, ia the heart of an old oak, without... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1792 - 396 pages
...notwithftanding they are naturally voracious, yet they can fubfift without eating a confiderable time. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, there is an account of a bitch, who having been accidentally left in a country-houfe, fubfifted 40 days without any other nourifhment... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1793 - 418 pages
...there is, to this day, a marble ehimney-piece at Chatfworth with the print of the toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in which it was found.. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, in the year 1719, there is an account of a toad found alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...There is to this d.iy a marble chimney-piece at Chatfworth, with the print of the toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in -which it was found. In...alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm. In the year 1731 there was another four.d near Nantes, in the heart of an old oak without the fmalleft... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 432 pages
...and shut up from the air, and all appearance of food, and being taken alive out of such situations. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences there is an account, that, in the year 1731, a toad was found in the heart of an pld oak, near Nantz, without any visible... | |
 | Samuel Williams - 1809 - 528 pages
...shut up from the air, and all appearance of food ;. and being taken alive, out of such situations. In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, there is an account that in the year -1731, a toad was found in the heart of an old oak near Nantz, without any visible... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1811 - 460 pages
...notwithstanding they are naturally voracious, yet they can subsist without eating a considerable time. In the Memoirs ' of the Academy of Sciences, there is an account of a -bitch, who having been accidentally left in a cotmtry-hotisej subsisted 4O days without any other... | |
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Chatsworth, with the print of a toad upon it, and a tradition of the manner in which it was found. In the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences there is an account of a toad found alive and healthy in the heart of a very thick elm without the smallest entrance... 
