Some insects are endowed with an appetite so keen, and a digestion so rapid, that they eat incessantly throughout the whole of their lives. They begin as soon as they are born, and go steadily on till they die. Their existence is a feast, without a change... Holiday papers. Orig. ser - Strana 216autor/autoři: Harry Jones - 1891Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| 1871 - 602 str.
...judgment, perception, conception, abstraction, and reason are weakened, and sometimes altogether lost." INSECT APPETITE. — The man who wished he had a throat...appetite so keen, and a digestion so rapid, that they cat incessantly throughout the whole of their lives. They begin as soon as they are born, and go steadily... | |
| 1880 - 314 str.
...in eating is of course bad as well as ex;ess in drinking. Under its influence we have heard of one man who "wished he had a throat a mile long and a palate all the way!" and of another who when going to a Lord Mayor's feast met a wretched beggar who declared he had not... | |
| Emma E. Hornibrook - 1883 - 398 str.
...perfect nonchalance, asked me whether I ever heard of the gourmand who, going to a Lord Mayor's feast, wished he had " a throat a mile long and a palate all the way \ " or of another who, meeting an unfortunate beggar who declared he had not eaten anything since the... | |
| 1861 - 686 str.
...which they will bless the name of Mr. Gladstone. — The Lanctt. INSECT APPETITE. THE man who wished be had a throat a mile long, and a palate all the way,...insignificance. Some insects are endowed with an appetite so keen.Tind a digestion so rapid, that they eat incessantly throughout the whole of their lives. They... | |
| 1861 - 590 str.
...the third loggerhead can be. — John B. Govyh, INSECT APPETITE. The man who wished he had a thront a mile long, and a palate all the way, might envy...Some insects are endowed with an appetite so keen sml a digestion so rapid, that they eat incessantly throughout the whole of their lives. They begin... | |
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