 Not to take notice of her covering it from the injuries of the weather, providing it proper nourishment, and teaching it to help itself; nor to mention her forsaking the nest, if, after the usual time of reckoning, the young one does not make its appearance....  The Guide to Knowledge - Page 8edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...even in relation 236 237 to the same subject. " A chemical operation," says Addison, " could not bu followed with greater art or diligence, than is seen...chicken ; yet is the process carried on without the least glimmering of thought , or common sense. The hen will mistake a piece of chalk for an egg ; is... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...will carry us ; and it hath been well observed, that this deep sagacity, if it be sagacity, subsists in conjunction with great stupidity, even in relation..." A chemical operation," says Addison, " could not b« followed with greater art or diligence, than is seen in hatching a chicken ; yet is the process... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...after the usual time of reckoning the young ones does not make its appearance. A chimerical operation could not be followed with greater art or diligence than is seen in the hatching of a chick ; though there are many other birds that show an infinitely greater sagacity... | |
 | 1824 - 278 pages
...after the usual time of reckoning, the young one does not make its appearance. A chemical operation could not be followed with greater art or diligence than is seen in the hatching of a chick, though there are many other birds that show an infinitely greater sagacity... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 pages
...after the usual time of reckoning the young one does not make its appearance. A chemical operation could not be followed with greater art or diligence than is seen in the hatching «fa cluck; though there are many other birds that show an infinitely greater sagacity... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...after the usual time of reckoning, the young one does not make its appearance. A chemical operation d me in the way everlasting." Spectator. § 24. No Life pleasing to the hatching; of a chick; though there are many other birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 440 pages
...will carry us ; and it hath been well observed, that this deep sagacity, if it be sagacity, subsists in conjunction with great stupidity, even in relation to the same subject. " A chymical operation," says Addison, " could not be followed with greater art or diligence than is seen... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 pages
...after the usual time of reckoning, the young one does not make its appearance. A chemical operation could not be followed with greater art or diligence than is seen in hatching a chick, though there are many birds that shew an infinitely greater sagacity : yet, at the same time,... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 pages
...will carry us : and it hath been well observed, that this deep sagacity, if it be sagacity, subsists in conjunction with great stupidity, even in relation to the same subject. ' A chymical operation,' says Addison, ' could not be followed with greater art or diligence, than is seen... | |
 | William Paley - 1833 - 356 pages
...will carry us; and it hath been well observed, that this deep sagacity, if it be sagacity, subsists in conjunction with great stupidity, even in relation to the same subject. " A chemical operation, " saysAddison, "could not be followed with greater art or diligence, than is seen in hatching a chicken;... | |
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