| Shaw Desmond - 1927 - 308 pages
...and, generally, act like lunatics — that is, like humans. Not even the seductive inscription : Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em....fleas have lesser fleas — and so, ad infinitum. could part me from the shilling which was the entrance fee. Had I not already paid nearly that to get... | |
| W. E. Collinson - 1927 - 180 pages
...RHYMES AND HIDDEN ALLUSIONS. Other rhymes which are common property and sometimes crop out are: 1. Big fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs to bite 'em / And little fleas have smaller fleas / And so ad infinitum. — in which the last line is often repeated. 2. The famous rhyme:... | |
| Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart - 1928 - 372 pages
...essentially orchestral. To vary the comparison, it may be said of it more expressively than politely that "large fleas have little fleas upon their backs to...little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum." LudendoriFs next problem was to decide his initial direction of attack. The sector between Arras and... | |
| Brian Lumley - 1991 - 612 pages
...say to him when he was small and had an itch. She would find the spot and scratch it, reciting: "Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em. And little fleas have smaller fleas, and so ad infinitum!" Was Clarke himself under esper scrutiny? And if so, what had been... | |
| Philip Smith - 1992 - 100 pages
...Raggedy Man!" Raggedy! Raggedy! Raggedy Man! — JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Great Fleas Have Little Fleas Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,...little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves in turn have greater fleas to go on While these again have greater still,... | |
| Adams - 1992 - 356 pages
...one, would appear to lie in microbials (biopesticides). You recall, of course, the old jingle: "Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,...little fleas have lesser fleas and so, ad infinitum." That truism applies to insects, no one of which is free of disease-killing pathogens which occur naturally... | |
| Paul A. Bogaard, Gordon Treash, Ivor Leclerc - 1993 - 374 pages
...are organisms and theirs again. A partial analogy though not altogether apt is the doggerel: Great fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite 'em,...little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad infinitum. Less flippantly, Leibniz' contention was that every substance is an organic whole and that material... | |
| JoAnn M. Tenorio, Gordon M. Nishida - 1995 - 196 pages
...or they xvill likely return. FLEAS Order Siphonapter Great fleas have little fleas upon their hacks to bite 'em. And little fleas have lesser fleas. and so ad infmitum. And the great fleas themselves. in turn. hace greater fleas to go on. While these again hace... | |
| Andrew Paul Gutierrez - 1996 - 326 pages
...bottom-up effects on baseline population dynamics. 8 Simple Models of Multitrophic Interactions Big fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite 'em And little fleas have lesser fleas And so M infinitum —Robert Hegner (1938) Models of complicated trophic interactions seek, among other things,... | |
| Jack Sweeting - 1997 - 306 pages
...sub-contractors or suppliers. The whole thing being rather reminiscent of Augustus de Morgan's fleas, 'Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,...little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. ' The contractor evaluates the bids of competing suppliers, selects the most competitive (not necessarily... | |
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