 | 1883 - 528 lehte
...parasite. It has lost its real independence, its arts, and many of its instincts. ' The individuals are weak in body and mind, few in numbers, and apparently...miserable representatives of far superior ancestors.' ' Now it must be admitted that such an instinct as that of slave-making is difficult at first sight... | |
 | John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - 1882 - 244 lehte
...semblance of authority, and, when roused, will fight bravely, though in vain. of this sad history. We may safely conclude that in distant times their...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves. 13. But putting these slave-making ants on one side, we find in the different species of ants different... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - 494 lehte
...fight bravely, though in vain. In Anergates, finally, we come to the last scene of this sad history. We may safely conclude that in distant times their...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves. M. Lespes has given a short but interesting account of some experiments made by him on the relations... | |
 | 1882 - 314 lehte
...their instincts ; that gradually even their bodily force dwindled away under the enervating influences to which they had subjected themselves, until they...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves. It is conceivable that the Tetramoriums may have gradually become hardier and stronger ; the marauding... | |
 | 1882 - 404 lehte
...their instincts ; that gradually even their bodily force dwindled away under the enervating influences to which they had subjected themselves, until they...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves. It is conceivable that the Tetramoriums may have gradually become hardier and stronger ; the marauding... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1882 - 536 lehte
...present degraded condition — weak in body and mind, few in numbers, and apparently nearly extinqt, the miserable representatives of far superior ancestors,...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves. M. Lespes has given a short but interesting account of some experiments made by him on the relations... | |
 | 1883 - 654 lehte
...parasite. It has lost its real independence, its arts, and many of its instincts. 'The individuals are weak in body and mind, few in numbers, and apparently...miserable representatives of far superior ancestors.' ' Now it must be admitted that such an instinct as that of slave-making is difficult at first sight... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 706 lehte
...establish themselves by sheer usurpation in the queenless nest. ' Gradually,' says Sir John Lubbock, ' even their bodily force dwindled away under the enervating...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves.' One may observe in passing, that these wretched donothings cannot have been the ants which Solomon... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1890 - 478 lehte
...establish themselves by sheer usurpation in the queenless nest. ' Gradually,' says Sir John Lubbock, ' even their bodily force dwindled away under the enervating...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves.' One may observe in passing that these wretched do-nothings cannot have been the ants which Solomon... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1896 - 1002 lehte
...losing by degrees their real independence, their arts, and many of their instincts; that gradually eren their bodily force dwindled away under the enervating...as contemptible parasites of their former slaves." During the summer of 1887 I spent several weeks in New Mexico, and while there had the great good fortune... | |
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... that by degrees they became bold marauders, and gradually took to keeping slaves ; that for a time they maintained • their strength and agility, though losing by degrees their real independence, their arts, and even many of their instincts ; that... 
