 Thus the pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits; and it will certainly be found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 3701782Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1806
...pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work alter, nately, may be obtained as often aa curiosity excites or time permits: and it will certainly be...fight, or the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great. We meet vast obstacles in examining the interior parts of these tumuli. In the first place... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782
...again ruih oui, and then retreat, and are followed by the labourers, loaded with mortar, and as aclive and diligent as before. — * Thus,' fays the Author,...as often to drive away the Negroes, who are without (hoes, and make white people bleed plentifully through their llockings. ' Such is the flrength of the... | |
 | William Smellie - Animal behavior - 1790
...fure of feeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may 1 be obtained as often as curiofuy excites, or time permits; and it * will certainly...other to work, let the emergency be ever fo great.' •; ' . • • . * ' It is exceedingly difficult to explore the interior parts of a neft of hill.... | |
 | 1791
...the pleafure of feeing tltcm come out to fight or to work alternately, may be obtained as often aï curiofity excites or time permits : and it will certainly...order never attempts to fight, or the other to work, t the emergency be ever fo great." The obllinacy of the foldicrs is remarkable. " They fight to the... | |
 | 1793
...bs obtained ai often as curiofïty ejtcite* or time permits: and it will ccrt»iely be found, thnt the one order never attempts to fight, or the other to work, let the emergency be crcr fa great." OBSERVATIONS on RESPIRATION, with a View to afcerum tb« Origin of the fixed Air discovered... | |
 | English literature - 1782
...pleafure of feeing them come out to fight or to work alternately may be obtained, as often as cuiiofity excites, or time permits : and it will certainly be found, that the one order ncvec attempts to fight, or the other to work, let pitioni, are almofl certain of a fpeedy re- the... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803
...pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits ; and it will certainly be...found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great." It is exceedingly difficult to explore... | |
 | George Barrington - Convict ships - 1810 - 472 pages
...pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work, alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits; and it will certainly be...found, that the one order never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great" But as these ants are sometimes the instruments... | |
 | 1814
...pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or to work alternately, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits ; and it will certainly be...found, that the one order .never attempts to fight, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great." It is exceedingly difficult to explore... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 660 pages
...come out to fight or work alternately, Mr. Smeathman observes, may be obtained as often as curiosity excites, or time permits ; and it will certainly be found that the one order never attempts lo light, nor the other to work, let the emergency be ever so great. The obstinacy of the soldiers... | |
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