 | 1805 - 948 pàgines
...for the idle and dissipated. They have even extended their enquiries after fighting animals into die insect tribe, in which they have discovered a species...same time a limb of their antagonist. These little crea. tures are fed and kept apart in bamboo cages ; and die custom of making them devour each odier... | |
 | 1805 - 984 pàgines
...classes in China: they train quails for the same wicked purpose, and having found a species of gryllui, that will attack each other with such ferocity as seldom to quit their hold without bringing away a limb of their antagonist, they keep these insects for the pleasure of seeing them devour each other... | |
 | 1822 - 634 pàgines
...and have discovered a species of Gryllus, or Locust, that will attack each other with such velocity as seldom to quit their hold, without bringing away...a limb of their antagonist. These little creatures arc fed and kept apart in bamboo cages, and the custom of making them devour each other is so common,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pàgines
...insect tribe, and have discovered a ipecies ofgryllus, or locust, that will attack each other with saA ferocity as seldom to quit their hold, without bringing...kept apart in bamboo cages, and the custom of making *bem devour each other is so common that, during the summer months, scarcely a boy is to be seen without... | |
 | John Weyland - 1816 - 538 pàgines
...inquiries after fighting animals into the insect tribe, and have been fortunate enough to discover a species of gryllus, or locust, that will attack...as seldom to quit their hold without bringing away a limb of their antagonist. (Barrow, p. 159-) In the summer months, hardly a boy is seen without his... | |
 | John Weyland - 1816 - 556 pàgines
...inquiries after fighting animals into the insect tribe, and have been fortunate enough to discover a species of gryllus, or locust, that will attack...as seldom to quit their hold without bringing away a limb of their antagonist. (Barrow, p. 159-) In the summer months, hardly a boy is seen without his... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1817 - 266 pàgines
...alludes). " They have even extended their inquiries after fighting animals into the insect tribe, and have discovered a species of Gryllus, or Locust, that...common, that during the summer months, scarcely a boy is to be seen without his cage of Grasshoppers." The Mantis Precaria, is a native of many parts of Africa,... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pàgines
...extended their enquiries after fighting animals to the insect tribe, and have discovered a species of locust that will attack each other with such ferocity...little creatures are fed and kept apart in bamboo cages,and the custom of making them devour each other is so common that, during the summer months,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pàgines
...allude.) u They have even extended their enquiries aficr fighting aninaals into the insect tribe, and have discovered a species of gryllus, or locust, that...that, during the summer months, scarcely a boy is to be ieen without his cage of grasshoppers. " . Barrow. SECTION VI. Cochineal, Kermes, and Gum. Luc... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 pàgines
...insect tribe, in which the? have discovered a species of gryUus, or locust, that will VoL. III. 2 S attack each other with such ferocity as seldom to...away at the same time a limb of their antagonist. The practice of flogging with the bamboo in universally practised, and none escape punishment from... | |
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... or locust, that will attack each other with such ferocity as seldom to quit their hold without bringing away at the same time a limb of their antagonist. These little creatures are fed and kept apart in bamboo cages; and the custom of making them... 
