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" ... many days after birth : for the young ones, supposed to break through the belly of the dam, will, upon any fright, for protection run into it ; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they will return... "
The Angler's Note-book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry ... - Page 142
1880 - 192 pages
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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1658 - 404 pages
...excluded are fuftained by the Dam: and protected untill they grow up coa fufficiency for themfelves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation: for the Dam being dellroyed' the younglings are left to their own portection : which is not conceivable they can at ail...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 18

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...dens, and caves, but I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton's Paradise Lost. The young vipers supposed to break through the belly of the dam, will,...protection run into it ; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they REF 462 ft . ' : fl {,.j : -t ir, will raturn...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...excluded are sustained by the dam, and protected until they grow up to a sufficiency for themselves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation...protection run into it; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they will return again ; '•' which is a peculiar...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...excluded are sustained by the dam, and protected until they grow up to a sufficiency for themselves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation...all perform, and whereof they afford us a remarkable continuance many days after birth : for the young ones, supposed to break through the belly of the...
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 1

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 568 pages
...excluded are sustained by the dam, and protected until they grow up to a sufficiency for themselves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation...protection run into it ; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they will return again ;9 which is a peculiar way...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...excluded are sustained by the dam, and protected until they grow up to a sufficiency for themselves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation...all perform, and whereof they afford us a remarkable conflrmance many days after birth : for the young ones, supposed to break through the belly of the...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 574 pages
...excluded are sustained by the dam, and protected until they grow up to a sufficiency for themselves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation...destroyed, the younglings are left to their own protection; whichinsnot conceivable they can at all perform, and whereof they afford us a remarkable confirmance...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2

Sir Thomas Browne - 1904 - 426 pages
...excluded are sustained by the Dam, and protected until they grow up to a sufficiency for themselves. All which is perverted in this eruptive generation...remarkable confirmance many days after birth. For the young one supposed to break through the belly of the Dam, will upon any fright for protection run into it...
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Milton Re-viewed: Ten Essays

Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 pages
...Thomas Browne (to choose one among scores of learned authorities) recorded of vipers, "For the young one supposed to break through the belly of the Dam, will...protection run into it; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way the fright being past, they will return again, which is a peculiar way of...
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