 | Thomas Medwin - 1834 - 370 pages
...all others, they are more cruelly treated than the most mischievous of wild beasts. As the Ephemerus abounds with useful lessons and moral precepts, so...engendered, grows to its bigness, and then generates large eggs, casts them, grows old, and dies in the space of five hours. This short term comprehends... | |
 | James Duncan - 1840 - 468 pages
...they arc more cruelly treated or used, than the most mischievous of wild beasts. " As the cphemerus abounds with useful lessons and moral precepts, so...largest known, and is the Ephemera longicauda of Olivier (Encyclop. Method. Art. Ephemera.) In honour of the individual who made us so accurately acquainted... | |
 | James Duncan - 1840 - 494 pages
...they are more cruelly treated or used, than the most mischievous of wild beasts, " As the ephemerus abounds with useful lessons .and moral precepts, so...observations is the largest known, and is the Ephemera iongicauda of Olivier (Encyclop. Method. Art. Ephemera.) In honour of the individual who made us so... | |
 | 1840 - 748 pages
...with useful lessons and mor.il precepts, so it affords sufficient matter for various speculation*. It is engendered, grows to its bigness, and then generates,...comprehends the morning, noon and evening of its life." This extract may appear to some of our readers rather longer than was suitable to our space, but it... | |
 | 112 pages
...with human life in which the main theme of Franklin's Letter is already developed : As the Ephemerus abounds with useful lessons and moral precepts, so...old, and dies in the space of five hours. This short time comprehends the morning, noon and evening of its life (p. 117). So pitiful was the life of the... | |
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Though these insects then are the most innocent, perhaps, of all others, they are more cruelly treated or used, than the most mischievous of wild beasts, " As the ephemerus abounds with useful lessons .and moral precepts, so it affords sufficient matter... 