 | Church congress - 1883 - 588 str.
...possibility could be acknowledged that there might be faults on both sides — may I say fleas, for " Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to..."em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad iufmitum," instead of each blustering, " I am Sir Oracle, and when I speak let no dog bark," " My doxy... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 str.
...on himself the airs of a literary padrone. How well does such a process illustrate the verse,— " Great fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite 'em: And little fleas have lesser fleas, And 80 ad infinitum ! 11 is high time for a protest against the deceit, frivolities, and dishonesty of... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 str.
...much to the Abbé Menier de Saint- Léger. 79. Ad infinitum. (L.) — To infinity ; without end. Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em...little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum (?). 80. Ad interim. (L.) — In the meantime ; provisionally. 81. A discretion. (Fr.) — According... | |
 | 1931 - 680 str.
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 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1896 - 864 str.
...me, my dear sir, as a microbe of millionaires, a parasite upon capitalists. You know the old rhyme : Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And ihese again have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum .' Well, that's just how I view myself. You are... | |
 | 1924 - 570 str.
...De Morgan. While Swift only descends, De Morgan also ascends the ladder: — Great fleas have litile fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas...in turn, have greater fleas to go on ; While these have greater still, and greater still, and so on.' But Swift caps the climax, and sets our minds at... | |
 | Richard Brodhead Westbrook - 1892 - 474 str.
...at first seems to attach to the word belong. Then the priesthood itself is subdivided into castes. " Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to...fleas have lesser fleas ; and so — ad infinitum." When Patrick J. Ryan was installed Archbishop in Philadelphia, an office conferred by a foreign potentate,... | |
 | Edward North Buxton - 1892 - 432 str.
...should be. Their surmise is confirmed if they encounter great shoals of fish, on the principle that " Great fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to...little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad infinitum." These they haul in at a great rate — I mean the fishes. Only if they find, by the shortening of their... | |
 | 1924 - 550 str.
...Paradoxes, by Augustus De Morgan. While Swift only descends, De Morgan also ascends the ladder I—- Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to...'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad in fin itum; And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on ; While these have... | |
 | Edward North Buxton - 1892 - 436 str.
...should be. Their surmise is confirmed if they encounter great shoals of fish, on the principle that " Great fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to...'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad infinilum." These they haul in at a great rate—I mean the fishes. Only if they find, by the shortening... | |
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, | And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. 
