 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 páginas
...ample vans are calculated to catch the wind as sails, and so to carry it sometimes over the sea ; and although a single individual can effect but little...entire surface of a country is covered by them, and everyone makes bare the spot on which it stands, the mischief produced may be as infinite as their... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 páginas
...ample vans are caleulated to catch the wind as sails, and so to carry it sometimes over the sea ; and although a single individual can effect but little...mischief produced may be as infinite as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power, that they make a locust say to Mahomet — " We are the army... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 páginas
...their arid deserts, and pitch their tents in the desolated plains. Mr. Kirby proceeds to observe, that although a single individual can effect but little...mischief produced may be as infinite as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power, that they make a locust say to Mahomet, " we are the army... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1832 - 998 páginas
...vans are calculated to catch the winds as sails, and so as to carry it sometimes over the sea — and although a single individual can effect but little...first record of the ravages of locusts, which we find in history, is the account in the Book of Exodus, of the visitation to the land of Egypt. Africa appears... | |
 | 1833 - 796 páginas
...single individual can effect but little evil, yet when the entire surface of a country is covered with them, and every one makes bare the spot on which it...their numbers. " The first record of the ravages of the locusts which we find in history is the account in the Book of Exodus, of the visitation to the... | |
 | 1833 - 784 páginas
...to leap to a considerable distance, and its ample vans are calculated to catch the wind as sails - Although a single individual can effect but little...yet when the entire surface of a country is covered with them, and every one makes bare the spot on which it stands, the mischief produced may be as infinite... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 páginas
...ample vans are calculated to catch the wind as sails, and so to carry it sometimes over the sea ; and although a single individual can effect but little...mischief produced may be as infinite as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power, that they make a locust say to Mahomet, " We are the army... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 páginas
...sometimes over the sea ; and althongh a single individual can effect but little evil, yet when the eutire surface of a country is covered by them, and every...mischief produced may be as infinite as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power, that they make a locust say to Mahomet, " We are the army... | |
 | Elisha Noyce - 1859 - 360 páginas
...ample vans are calculated to catch the wind as sails, and so to carry it sometimes over the sea; and although a single individual can effect but little...mischief produced may be as infinite as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power, that they make a Locust say to Mahomet, 'We are the army... | |
 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 páginas
...its ample vans are calculated to catch the wind as sails, and so carry it sometimes over the sea; and although a single individual can effect but little...on which it stands, the mischief produced may be as extensive as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power, that they make a locust say to... | |
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... to carry it sometimes over the sea ; and although a single individual can effect but little evil, yet when the entire surface of a country is covered by them, and every one makes bare the spot on which it stands, the mischief produced may be as infinite... 
