 ... covering, and start into day a winged bird, — what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the learned, what surmises...  Medical Times - Page 1631850Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pages
...— what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. But you ask, " To what do all these improbable suppositions tend ? " Simply to rouse your... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pages
...— what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. But you ask, " To what do all these improbable suppositions tend ? " Simply to rouse your... | |
 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 pages
...What, think you, would be the sensation excited by the strange piece of intelligence ? — After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. But, you ask, " To what do all these improbable suppositions tend ?" Simply to rouse your... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pages
...bird;—what, think you, would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment,...amongst the learned what surmises ! what investigations ! among the vulgar, what eager curiosity ! what amazement! " Another naturalist has remarked with equal... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pages
...— what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. But, you ask, " To what do all these improbable suppositions tend ?" Simply to rouse your... | |
 | 1848 - 602 pages
...— what think you wolild be the sensation excited by thin strange piece of intelligence ? Aftei the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...Amongst the vulgar, what eager curiosity and amazement ! Ail would be interested in the history of such an unheard-of phenomenon ; even the most torpid would... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pages
...long, long before the art of making paper as we now see it was discovered by man ; and the pelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the learned,...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. — (Inlrod., i. 58.) And yet, without exciting much surprise, that is what is continually... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1855 - 1196 pages
...— what think you would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy." * Now a marvel of this kind, in all its essential features, is manifested in this country... | |
 | 1857 - 474 pages
...What, think you, would be the sensation excited by the strange piece of intelligence 1 — After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. But, you ask, " To what do all these improbable suppositions tend V Simply to rouse your attention... | |
 | 1857 - 528 pages
...think you would be the sensation .excited by this strange piece of intelligence? After the first doubt of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would...the most torpid would flock to the sight of such a prodigy. But, you ask, " To what do all these improbable suppositions tend ?" Simply to rouse your... | |
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