 | English literature - 1804 - 174 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...of a lobster, and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for an attack... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1820 - 514 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...several eyes, large, transparent, and covered with a hornv substance, which, however, does not impede its vision. Besides this, it is furnished with a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 486 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...of a lobster ; and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for au attack... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...several eyes, large, transparent, and covered with a horny substance, which, however, does not impede its vision. Besides this, it is furnished with a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 448 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...several eyes, large, transparent, and covered with a horny substance, which, however, does not impede its vision. Besides this, it is furnished with a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, thanked her deliverer more with looks than words,...wife also hoped one day to have the pleasure of ret serve to keep every assailant at a like s|ii-ars, distance. Not worse furnished for observation than... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...several eyes, large, transparent, and covered with a horny substance, which, however, does not impede its vision. Besides this, it is furnished with a... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin, which eludes tlio sting even of a wasp. Its legs are terminated by strong claws, not unlike those of a lobster ;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 pages
...arecovered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...several eyes, large, transparent, and covered with a horny substance, which, however, does not impede (1) [Goldsmith's residence at this period was on... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, elegy, child, by all means," j and their vast length, like spears, serve to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished... | |
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This insect is formed by nature for a state of war, not only upon other insects, but upon each other. For this state nature seems perfectly well to have formed it. Its head and breast are covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable... 
