 | 1882 - 498 pages
...officials and the people of China ; a relation to which the lines of Swift are singularly applicable: "So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas...smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum." The effort to apprehend the full bearing of a Chinese sentence at the first hearing, resembles the... | |
 | Nicholas Francis Cooke - 1882 - 142 pages
...Professor of Special Pathology and Diagnosis in the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago. "So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas...have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad inflnitum." — SWIFT in nth Century, CHICAGO: GROSS & DELBHIDGE. 1882. «J. MILHAU'e* SOIN, DRTJ&GIST... | |
 | George Harwood - 1882 - 412 pages
...marking a high civilisation may correspond to that low aspect of Nature described in the words — " So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas...have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed, ad inflnitum." The Democracy may come to think that nations, like individuals, can pay too dearly for... | |
 | Nicholas Francis Cooke - 1885 - 108 pages
...Professor of Special Pathology and Diagnosis in the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago. "So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas...have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad inflnitum." — SWIFT in nth Century SECOND EDITION. CHICAGO: GROSS & DELBRIDGE. 1885. COPYRIGHT, BY... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...on restless wing, Seeking in vain one flower whereon to fix. t. SOUTHEY— Thaldba. Bk. VI. St 13. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas...have smaller still to bite 'em. And so proceed ad inftnitum. f. SWIFT— Poetry. A Raphsody. Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt, Has crushed... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...wing, Seeking in vain one flower whereon to fix. f. SOUTBEY— Thalaba. Bk. VI. St. 13. So, naturaliste observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey...have smaller still to bite 'em. And so proceed ad inftnitum. J. SWIFT — Poetry. A Raphsody. Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt, II.« crushed... | |
 | William C. Holbrook - 1882 - 248 pages
...known these annoying insects so plentiful or voracious; and we all realized the truth of the lines— " a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite "em, And so increase ad infmitum." Rattlesnakes, and those of the "copperhead" breed, were also abundant, which... | |
 | George Harwood - 1882 - 412 pages
...marking a high civilisation may correspond to that low aspect of Nature described in the words — " So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas...on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'cm, And so proceed, ad infinitum." The Democracy may come to think that nations, like individuals,... | |
 | 1883 - 548 pages
...Weller noticed in the Fleet Prison was a prison within a prison, proporro; so in the well-known lines : So naturalists observe a flea Has smaller fleas that...smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum, the different stages might be expressed by the word proporro : on consideration, I say, of the force... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...; While others do as much for him. The vermin only teaze and pinch Their foes superior by an inch. So naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that...smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind : Who, though too little to be seen,... | |
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And- these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. 
