 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...community ; who conftrudt roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the neir, and leading to every object of plunder within their reach. Though the mifchiefs they commit are very great, fuch is the ceconomy of nature, that it is probably counterbalanced... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...community ; who con^u: :l •-::...., : or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the neft, and leading to every object of plunder within their reach. Though the mifchiefs they commit are very great, fuch is the ceconomy of nature, that it is probably counterbalanced... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the...reach. Though the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that they are probably counterbalanced by the good produced by them,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions frem the nest, and leading to every object of plunder within their reach. Thsugli the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that they are probably... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...this 'powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all direction! from the nest, and leading to every object of plunder...reach. Though the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that it is probably counterbalanced by the good pioduced by them, in... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...related of the devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the...leading to every object of plunder within their reach. They destroy dead trees and various other substances ; and such is their efficiency and despatch, that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1824 - 518 pages
...related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the...leading to every object of plunder within their reach.] CHAPTER VI. OF THE BEETLE, AND ITS VARIETIES. HITHERTO we have been treating of insects with four transparent... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Zoology - 1824 - 440 pages
...related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the...leading to every object of plunder within their reach.] . ' CHAPTER VI. • OF THE BKETLE, AND ITS VARIETIES. HITHERTO we have been treating of insects with... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct road?, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the...reach. Though the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that they are probably counterbalanced by the good produced by them,... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...until they are able to shift for themselves, and take their share in the labours of the community. diverging in all directions from the nest, and leading...reach. Though the mischiefs they commit are very great, such is the economy of nature, that they are probably counterbalanced by the good produced hy them,... | |
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Many curious and striking particulars are related of the great devastations committed by this powerful community, which construct roads, or rather covered ways, diverging in all directions from the nest, and leading to every object of plunder within their... 