 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...once heated, must have become extremely painful, and probably dangerous to him. He therefore spent the more sultry hours under the 'umbrella of a large cabbage leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparngus bed. But, as he endeavoured to avoid the heal in the summer, he improved the faint autumnal... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together, in the profoundest of all slumbers ! Though he loves warm weather, he avoids the hot sun...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 pages
...joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together, in the profoundest of all slumbers! Though he loves warm weather, he avoids the hot sun;...because his thick shell, when once heated, would, as-the poet says of solid armour, ' scald with safety.' He therefore spends the more sultry hours under... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pages
...lord, - " Much too wise to walk into a well :" and has ю much discernment as not to fall down a haha ; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus-bed. " But as he avoids heat in the summer,... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 722 pages
...joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of all slumbers. Though he loves warm weather, he avoids the hot sun,...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer,... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 782 pages
...joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of all slumbers. Though he loves warm weather, he avoids the hot sun,...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well :" and has so much discernment as not to fall down a haha; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...because his thick shell, when once heated, would, iis the poet says of solid armour — " scald with safety." He therefore spends the more sultry hours... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well," and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha, but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amid the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But, as he avoids the heat in summer,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well ;" and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha ; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus-bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer,... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 pages
...lord, " much tno wise to walk iuto a well j" and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha, but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...loves warm weather, he avoids the hot sun ; because this thick shell, when once heated, would, as the poet says of solid armour, " scald with safety."... | |
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BECAUSE we call this creature an abject reptile, we are too apt to undervalue his abilities, and depreciate his powers of instinct. Yet he is, as Mr. Pope says of his lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well... 
