 | Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 396 pages
...nymph, till on the feventyfirft day, from the time that the little animal was hatched, when (he comes forth with plumage, and having found her mate, begins...creation, they both lie down and die. This would be the natural progrefsj but, to preferve the filk, the animal is killed by heat, and the cones being thrown... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 910 pages
...nymph, till, on the seventy-first day, from the time that the little animal washatched, when shecomes forth with plumage, and, having found her mate, begins to lay her eggs. At the end of six days from this period of existence, having answered the end of their creation, they both lie down... | |
 | Leonard Williams - Decoration and ornament - 1907 - 370 pages
...nymph, until the seventy-first day from the time that the little animal was hatched, when she comes forth with plumage, and having found her mate, begins to lay her eggs. At the end of six days from this period of arroba, which is about equal to twenty-seven French pounds, cost, in 1783,... | |
 | History - 1791 - 508 pages
...nymph, till on the feventyfirft day, from the time that the little animal was hatched, when flic comes forth with plumage, and having found her mate, begins to lay her eggs. At the end of fix days /torn this period of exiftence, having anfwered the end of their creation» they both lie down and... | |
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... forth with plumage, and having found her mate, .begins to lay her eggs. At the end of fix .days from this period of exiftence, having anfwered the end of their creation, they both lie down and die. 