 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 506 pages
...been considered as the labour of queens.7' They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transport the short-lived insect, but that in the eggs a numerous...be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate. Religion or interest had more power over the Persian monks than the love of their country: after a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 454 pages
...They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transport the short-lived insect, but thatj4fl,jthe eggs a numerous progeny might be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate. Religion or interest had more power over the Persian monks' tjian the love of their country : after... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...been considered as the labour of Queens. They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transport the short-lived insect, but that in the eggs a numerous...be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate. Religion or interest had more power over thePersiati monks, than the love of their country. After u... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...considered as CHAP. the labour of queens *. They soon discovered that xxxm it was impracticable to transport the short-lived insect, but that in the eggs a numerous...be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate. Religion or interest had more power over the Persian monks than the love of their country ; after a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 496 pages
...pious occupations, they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silkworms, whose education,...creature, and strove to make themselves acquainted with all the manual arts employed in working up its productions into so great a variety of fabrics. On their... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1831 - 370 pages
...pious occupations, they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silkworms, whose education,...creature, and strove to make themselves acquainted with all the manual arts employed in working up its productions into so great a variety of fabrics. On their... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...myriads of silkworms, whose education, either on trees or in houses, had once been considered the labor of queens. They soon discovered that it was impracticable...distant climate."* They observed with interest the labors of the little creature, and strove to make themselves acquainted with all the manual arts employed... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1837 - 426 pages
...says Robertson, " they viewed, with a curious eye, the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk-worms, whose education,...be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate." Having secretly obtained a quantity of eggs, they succeeded in concealing them, and in conveying them... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1839 - 436 pages
...whose education, either on trees or in houses, had once been considered the labor of queens. They ,soqn discovered that it was impracticable to .transplant...be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate." Having secretly obtained a quantity of eggs, they succeeded in concealing them, and in conveying them... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...myriads of silkworms, whose education, either on trees or in houses, had once been considered the labor of queens. They soon discovered that it was impracticable...be preserved and multiplied in a distant climate." Having secretly obtained a quantity of eggs, they succeeded in concealing them, and in conveying them... | |
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... they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silkworms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens. 
