Memoirs of Literature: Containing a Large Account of Many Valuable Books, Letters and Dissertations Upon Several Subjects, Miscellaneous Observations, Etc, Volume 3Michel de La Roche R. Knaplock, 1722 - Bibliography |
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Page 204 - It is highly probable they knew it by experience ; and I frequently found pigeons and birds in that place, when I went to it in a morning.
Page 208 - I leave it to you to judge, whether it may not be said, that they have a particular way of communicating their knowledge to one another; for otherwise how could they know, one or two hours after, that there was corn in that place ? It was quickly exhausted...
Page 210 - Loubere says in his relation of Siam, that in a certain part of that kingdom, which lies open to great inundations, all the ants make their settlements upon trees. No ants' nests are to be seen any where else.
Page 212 - They are never attacked by any enemies in a body, as it is reported of bees. Their only fear proceeds from birds, which sometimes 'eat their corn when they lay it out in the sun ; but they keep it under ground when they are afraid of thieves. It is said that some birds eat them ; but I never saw any instance of it.
Page 322 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture ; and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 209 - ... the rain is over. The ants of the principal nest found out a wonderful expedient to keep out the rain: there was a small piece of a flat...
Page 206 - I know, by several experiments, that those little animals take great care to provide themselves with wheat when they can find it, and always pick out the best; but they can make shift without it.
Page 207 - ... their corn, after many long and painful excursions. What appeared to me wonderful was, that none of them came home without bringing something : one brought a grain of wheat, another a grain of rye or oats, or a particle of dry earth, if she could get nothing else. ' The window, upon which those ants had made their settlement, looked into a garden, and was two stories high.
Page 203 - In a room next to mine, which had been empty for a long time, there was upon a window a box full of earth, two feet deep, and fit to keep flowers in. That kind of parterre had been long uncultivated ; and therefore it was covered with old...
Page 212 - They are never attacked by any enemies in a body, as it is reported of bees : their only fear proceeds...