 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marvels - 1880 - 376 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, '"VVe are the army... | |
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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... 
