 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam, or that the female viper, in the act of generation, bites off the head of the male, in...the female, is a very ancient tradition ; in this sense entertained in the hieroglyphicks of the Egyptians ; 7 affirmed by Herodotus, Nicander, Pliny,... | |
 | 1843 - 534 pages
...their way through the bowels of their dam, or that the female viper in the act of generation bites oft' the head of the male, in revenge whereof the young...through the womb and belly of the female, is a very antient tradition. In this sense entertained in the Hieroglyphicks of the Egyptians, affirmed by Herodotvis,... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 568 pages
...young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam, or that the female viper, in the act of generation, bites off the head of the male, in...the female, is a very ancient tradition ; in this sense entertained in the hieroglyphicks of the Egyptians ;7 affirmed by Herodotus, Nicander, Pliny,... | |
 | John Lyly - 1902 - 588 pages
...that the female viper in the act of generation bites off the head of the male, in revenge where of the young ones eat through the womb and belly of the female, is a very ancient tradition . . . affirmed by Herodotus, Nicander, Pliny, Plutarch . . . from hence is commonly assigned the reason... | |
 | 1913 - 152 pages
...; cf. l. 646 : « my pioning pollicies ». 279. vipers young : « That the female viper in the act of generation bites off the head of the male, in revenge...and belly of the female, is a very ancient tradition ». — Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors III. xvi. Cf. also Edward Topsell, The History of Serpents... | |
 | Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson - 1995 - 260 pages
...the young Vipers force their way through the bowels of their Dam, or that the female Viper in the act of generation bites off the head of the male, in revenge whereof the young ones eate through the womb and belly of the female is a very ancient tradition. '; Without making sexual... | |
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THAT the young vipers force their way through the bowels of their dam, or that the female viper, in the act of generation, bites off the head of the male, in revenge whereof the young ones eat through the womb and belly of the female, is a very ancient... 