 ... but may, perhaps, live altogether without it, as those creatures have done, who by reason of their sleeping for many days together, have not spent any spirits, and so not wanted any food, which is commonly related of serpents, crocodiles, bears, cuckoos,...  All the Year Round - Page 1301866Full view - About this book
 | John Wilkins - Cryptography - 1802 - 294 pages
...Mendoca * reckons up divers strange relations. As that of Epimenides, who is storied to have slept T5 years. And another of a rustic in Germany, who being...and the winter following, without any nourishment. Or, if this will not serve ; yet why may not a papist fast * Viridar. I. 4. prob. 24. so long, as well... | |
 | John Wilkins - Cryptography - 1802 - 292 pages
...commonly related of serpents, crocodiles, bears, cuckoos, swallows, and such like. To this purpose, Mendoca * reckons up divers strange relations. As that of Epimenides, who is storied to have slept 75 years. «And another of a rustic in Germany, who being accidentally covered with a hay-rick slept... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1823 - 402 pages
...commonly related of serpents, crocodiles, bears, cuckoos, swallows, and such like. To this purpose, Mendoca reckons up divers strange relations. As that...accidentally covered with a hay-rick, slept there for all the autumn, and the winter following, without any nourishment. ". Or, if this will not serve, yet why... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...commonly related of serpents, crocodiles, bears, cuckoos, swallows, and such like. To this purpose, Mendoca reckons up divers strange relations. As that...slept seventy-five years. And another of a rustic iu Germany, who being accidentally covered with a hay-rick, slept there for all the autumn, and the... | |
 | 1866 - 900 pages
...reckons up divers strange Delations. As that of Epimenides, who is storied to have slept seventy-live years. And another of a rustic in Germany, who, being...weight is imperfectly suggested by the man who had a hayrick laid atop of him. But what then ? Why may not smells nourish us as we walk moonward upon space,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...commonly related of serpents, crocodiles, bears, cuckoos, swallows, and such like. To this purpose Mendoza ch the safer and more secure way of the autumn and the winter following without any nourishment. The greatest difficulty of all is, By... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...Mendoza reckons up divers strange relations : as that of Epiincnides, who is storied to have B lept seventy-five years ; and another of a rustic in Germany,...accidentally covered with a hay-rick, slept there for all the autumn and the winter following without any nourishment. The greatest difficulty of all is, By... | |
 | Science - 1884 - 536 pages
...themselves from the heavy wear and tear of life. " To this purpose," says Bishop Wilkins, " Mendoza reckons up divers strange relations. As that of Epimenides,...weight is imperfectly suggested by the man who had a hayrick laid atop of him. But what then ? Why may not smells nourish us as we walk moonward upon space,... | |
 | Folklore - 1921 - 444 pages
...and some other examples to this purpose, gathered together by Mendoca Viridar. lib. 4. Prob. 23, 24." "Mendoca reckons up divers strange relations. As that of Epimenides, who is storied to have slept 75 yeeares. And another of a rusticke in Germany, who being accidentally covered with a hay-ricke,... | |
 | Folklore - 1921 - 434 pages
...and some other examples to this purpose, gathered together by Mendoca Viridar. lib. 4. Prob. 23, 24." "Mendoca reckons up divers strange relations. As that of Epimenides, who is storied to have slept 75 yeeares. And another of a rusticke in Germany, who being accidentally covered with a hay-ricke,... | |
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