 | Hyde Clarke, Charles Staniland Wake - 1877 - 76 pages
...this animal was esteemed by him to be the most inspired of all the reptiles, and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving...variety of forms, moving in a spiral course, and darting forwards with whatever degree of swiftness it pleases. It is, moreover, long-lived, and has the quality... | |
 | Jacob Youde William Lloyd - 1881 - 476 pages
...us, " was esteemed by the ancients to be the most inspirited of all reptiles, and of a fiery nature ; inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit, without either hands or feet. It is, moreover, long lived, and has the quality not only of putting off its old age and assuming a... | |
 | Ellen Russell Emerson - 1884 - 756 pages
...for this animal was esteemed by him to be the most inspirited of the reptiles and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving...its spirit without either hands or feet or any of the external members by which other animals effect their motion ; and in its progress it assumes a... | |
 | Charles Staniland Wake - 1888 - 318 pages
...this animal was esteemed by him to be the most inspired of all the reptiles, and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving...variety of forms, moving in a spiral course, and darting forwards with whatever degree of swiftness it pleases. It is, moreover, long-lived, and has the quality... | |
 | Thomas S. Sozinskey - 1891 - 196 pages
...Egyptians," it is said of the animal that it is "the most inspired of all the reptiles and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving...without either hands or feet or any of those external organs by which other animals effect their motion." See Cory's Ancient Fragments, p. 22. Edition by... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1912 - 392 pages
...without hands or feet or any of the external members by which other animals effect their motion, while in its progress it assumes a variety of forms, moving...forward with whatever degree of swiftness it pleases. The close relationship if not absolute identity among the early races of man between Solar, Phallic... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1912 - 392 pages
...eternal sorrow." For this animal was estimated to be the most spirited of all reptiles of fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit without hands or feet or any of the external members by which other animals effect their motion, while in its... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1996 - 150 pages
...For this animal was esteemed by him to be the most inspirited of all reptiles, and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit, without hands or feet, or any of the external members by which the other animals effect their motion ; and,... | |
 | Alexander Hislop - 2006 - 358 pages
...this animal was esteemed by him to be the most spiritual of all the reptiles, and of a FIERY nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit, without Fig. 62. either hands or feet Moreover, it is long-lived, and has the quality of RENEWING ITS YOUTH... | |
 | 1881 - 824 pages
...this animal was held by him to be the most inspirited of all the reptiles, and of a fiery nature ; inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving...without either hands or feet, or any of those external organs by which other -animals effect their motion. And in its progress it assumes a variety of forms,... | |
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Egyptians ; for this animal was esteemed by him to be the most inspired of all the reptiles, and of a fiery nature, inasmuch as it exhibits an incredible celerity, moving by its spirit without either hands or feet, or any of those external members by... 
