| George Edwards - Natural history - 1770 - 286 pages
...fubaqueous retreats. That when old fifhermen difcover fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again ; but when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...wings, which will continue but a very fhort time, owing to premature and forced revival. " That the good archbifhop did not want credulity, in other... | |
| 1772 - 412 pages
...old fifhermen difcover fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again; but, when young unexperienced ones take it, they will, by thawing the birds at a...time, being owing to a premature and forced revival. TQein patronifes the doctrine ftrongly, giving the following hiftory of their manner of retiring, which... | |
| Samuel Ward - 1775 - 414 pages
...fifliermen difcover fuch a mafs, they throw it again imp the water ; but when young ine'xperi "experienced ones take it, they will, by thawing the birds at a fire, bring them indeed to the nfe of their wings, which will continue but a very fliort time, being cnving to a premature and forced... | |
| Thomas Pennant - Animals - 1776 - 530 pages
...fubaqueous retreats. That when old fifhermen difcover fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again ; but when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...time, being owing to a premature and forced revival *. That the good Archbifhop did not want credulity, in other inftances, appears from thi?, that after... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1796 - 524 pages
...fubaqueous retreats j that, when old fiihermen difcover fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again ; but, when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...the ufe of their wings, which will continue but a Ihoit time, being, owing to ж premature and forced revival*. That p. 349. Poütop. Hift. Norw. ! »3.... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1796 - 512 pages
...fubaqueous retreats ; that, when old fiihermen difcover fuch a mafs, they throw it into the water again ; but, when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...the birds at a fire, bring them indeed to the ufe of tbeir wings, which will continue but a ihort time, being owing to a premature and forced revival*.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...fubaqueous retreats. That when old filhermen difcover ¡uch a mafs, they threw it into the water again ; but when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...ufe of their wings, which will continue but a very fhert time, being owing to a premature and forced revival. That the good Archbimopdid not want credulity,... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...fubaqueous retre.-.ts. That when old filhermen dilcover fuch a mafs, they threw it into the water again ; but when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...ufe of their wings, which will continue but a very (hart time, being owing to a prenutuie and forced revival. That the good Archbimopdid not want credulity,... | |
| Thomas Lupton - Birds - 1815 - 262 pages
...down, the reeds in autumn to theirsubaqueous recesses. That when old fishermen discover isuch a mass, they throw it again into the water.; but when young...inexperienced, ones take it, they will, by thawing the bird* at' a fire, bring them indeed to the use of their wings, which* will continue but a very short... | |
| Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...relates, that he has found the young of the latter in marshes, an 1 among sedge, near the water. prater ; but when young inexperienced ones take it, they will,...thawing the birds at a fire, bring them indeed to the use of their •Brings, which will continue but a very short time, being owing to p premature and forced... | |
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