 ... of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in the same manner. She is insensible of any increase or diminution in the number of those she lays. She does not distinguish between her own and...  A History of the Earth and Animated Nature - Page 12by Oliver Goldsmith - 1856Full view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming...considered in other respects, is without the least glimmering of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...many other birds that show an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming...common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an eirg, and sits upon it in the same manner. She is insensible of any increase or diminution in the number... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming...considered in other respects, is without the least glimmering of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 pages
...many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming...indeed absolutely necessary for the propagation of the specie^) considered in other respects, is without the least glimmering of thought or common sense.... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...many other hirds that show an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming ingenuity (which is indeed ahsolutely necessary for the propagation of the species) considered in other respects, is without the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 506 pages
...appearance. Can any thing have a greater appearance of reason. ing and sagacity than all this ? " But, at the same time, the hen, that has all this seeming...propagation of the species), considered in other respects, has not the least glimmering of thought or common Y 2 sense. • Ducks and geese always cover their... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...at the same time the hen, that has all this -fining ingenuity (which is indeed absolutely ne»sary for the propagation of the species), considered in...glimmerings of thought or common sense. She mistakes i pitee of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in the tae manner. She is insensible of any increase... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...her nest, and brings her young into the world, he continues, ' But at the same time, the hen, which has all this seeming ingenuity, (which is indeed absolutely necessary for the propagation of her species,) considered in other respects, is without the least glimmering of thought or common sense.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity in all the forementioned particulars. But at the same time the hen, that has all this seeming...mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in tke same manner : she is insensible of any increase or diminution in the number of those she lays :... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...particulars. But, at the same time, the hen, which has all this seeming ingenuity {which, indeed, is absolutely necessary for the propagation of the species)...considered in other respects, is without the least glimmering of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of clialk for an egg, and sits on it in... | |
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