 | 1823 - 858 pages
...be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. " While I was writing, a moist and warm afternoon, with the thermometer at...afternoon. This was a curious coincidence ! a very amnsing occurrence ! to Tortoi««. **e euch a similarity of feeling between the two ¡ficto»««... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...a curious coincidence ! a very amusing occurrence I to see such a similarity of feeling between two ipcftomoi i for so the Greeks call both the shell-snail... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...very amusing occurrence ! to see such a similarity of feeling between two (peqeoiVM ! for so the Greeks call both the shell-snail and the tortoise. Summer... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...about till four in the afternoon. This was a curious coinci. dence ! a very amusing occurrence ! to see such a similarity of feeling between two fapeoinoi... | |
 | 1843 - 524 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. ' While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...very amusing occurrence ! to see such a similarity of feeling between the two фцчоты, for so the Greeks call the shell-snail and the tortoise.' Again... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...four in the afternoon. This was a curious coincidence I a very amusing occurrence ! to see such a similarity of feeling between the two <j>speotKoi ! for... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. ' \Vlule I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...dead ; and walked about till four in the afternoon. Tliis was a curious coincidence ! a very amusing occurrence ! to see such a similarity of feeling between... | |
 | 1843 - 1040 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers. ' While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with...dead ; and walked about till four in the afternoon. Th>^ was a curious coincidence ! a very amusing occurrence ! to see such a similarity of feeling between... | |
 | 1849 - 712 pages
...and, during autumn, it hardly ate anything. In the month of April, 1780, Mr. White informs us, — " A moist and warm afternoon, with the thermometer at 50, brought forth troops of shell snails, and. at the same juncture, the tortoise heaved up the moold, and put out its head, and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...stupor, and be lost to all sensation for mouths together in the profoundest of slumbers. While I was writing this letter, a moist and warm afternoon, with the thermometer at 50, brought forth troops of * In Mr. White's unpublished MS., I find the following notices of Timothy, the tortoise, for so Mr.... | |
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... 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 two-thirds of its existence in a joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months... 
