| Erasmus Darwin - Science - 1800 - 676 pages
...which fell under my own eye, and fliewed the power of reafon in a wafp, as is it exercifed among men. A wafp, on a gravel walk, had caught a fly nearly...as himfelf; kneeling on the ground I obferved him feparnre the tail and the head from the body part, to which the wings were attached. He then took the... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 548 pages
...which fell under my own eye, and fhewed the power of rcafon in a wafp, as it is exercifed among men. A wafp, on a gravel walk, had caught a fly nearly...to which the wings were attached. He then took the bod^ part in his paws, and rofe about two feet from the ground with it; but a gentle breeze wafting... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1801 - 552 pages
...which fell under my own eye, and fhewed the power of reafon in a wafp, as it is cxercifed among men. A wafp, on a gravel walk, had caught a fly nearly...I obferved him feparate the tail and the head from thfi body part, to which the wings were attached. He then took the body part in his paws, and rofe... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - Evolution - 1803 - 622 pages
...which fell under my own eye, and ihewed the power of reafonj in a wafp, as it is exercifrd among men. A wafp, on a gravel walk, had caught a fly nearly as large ashimfelf ; kneeling on the ground I obferved him feparate the tail and the head from the body part,... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...his own eye, and shows the power of reasoning in a Wasp, as it is exercised among men : — " A Wasp on a gravel walk had caught a fly, nearly as large as himself; — kneeling on the ground, I observed him," says the doctor, " separate the tail and the... | |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Electrophysiology - 1817 - 452 pages
...reason in animals ; to the sceptical 1 offer the following anecdote iu the words of Darwin. " A wasp on a gravel walk had caught a fly nearly as large as itself. Kneeling on the ground 1 observed him separate the tail ajid thp head from the body part to... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - 1818 - 616 pages
...fell under my own eye, and showed the power of reason in a wasp, as it is exercised among men. A wasp, on a gravel walk, had caught a fly nearly as large as himself; kneeling on the ground I observed him separate the tail and the head from the body part, to... | |
| Animal welfare - 1822 - 184 pages
...fly, nearly as large as himself; kneeling on the ground, I observejd him," says the dector, " separate the tail and the head from the body part, to which the villas are attached. He then took the body part in his paws, and rose about two feet from the ground... | |
| George Combe - Phrenology - 1842 - 524 pages
...in brutes. To the incredulous I offer the following anecdote in the words of Dr. Darwin : ' A wasp on a gravel walk had caught a fly nearly as large as itself. Kneeling on the ground, I observed him separate the tail and the head from the body part to... | |
| Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...almost equal relish upon flesh and fruits. Dr. Darwin relates the following circumstance. " A wasp on a gravel walk had caught a fly, nearly as large as himself, and kneeling on the ground, I observed him," says the doctor, " separate the tail and the... | |
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