 | Gilbert White - 1868 - 228 pages
...strange heing, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of daysj such a seeming waste of longevity, on a. reptile that...moist and warm afternoon, with the thermometer at fifty, brought forth troops of shell-snails ; and, at the same juncture, the tortoise heaved up the... | |
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...reflection that 'it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of daya, such a seeming waste of longevity, on a reptile that...two-thirds of its existence in a joyless stupor.' Then the simple scholar may be easily fancied calling together his bachelor establishment for prayers,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...appears to relish it so little as to squander more than two- thirds of its existence in a joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...appears to relish it so little as to squander more than two thirds of it's existence in a joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pages
...<flepaoi1:ovt, or moralises how ' it is a matter of wonder to find that Providenco should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...for months together in the profoundest of slumbers.' Tortoises, it should be mentioned, according to Sir W. Jardine,31 have been known to live from 107... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. see such a similarity of feelings between the two ^epeoixot ! for so the Greeks called both the shell-snail... | |
 | 1879 - 820 pages
...^¡fp£OiV-ovc, or moralises how 'it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...be lost to all sensation for months together in the profonndest of slumbers.' Tortoises, it should be mentioned, according to Sir W. Jardine,31 have been... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...moist and warm afternoon, with the thermometer at fifty, brought forth troops of shell-snails, and, at the same juncture, the tortoise heaved up the... | |
 | 1882 - 780 pages
...the kindly naturalist falls to moralizing on "the matter of wonder that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...appears to relish it so little as to squander more than two- thirds of its existence in a joyless stupor." While thus occupied, a delightful surprise was in... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1886 - 344 pages
...the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity,...for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. . . . Because we call this creature an abject reptile, we are too apt to undervalue his abilities,... | |
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When one reflects on the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity, on a reptile that appears to relish it so little as to squander more than... 
