 I have often met with people of the name of Bruce, so completely persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider, because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance, and given a signal of good...  Lessons derived from the animal world - الصفحة 227بواسطة C. T - 1847عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Walter Scott - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider, because it was such an insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck, to their great namesake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain possession of Scotland, notwithstanding the smallness... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider, because it was such an insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck, to their great namesake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain possession of Scotland, notwithstanding the smallness... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...persuaded of the truth of this story. that they would not on any account kill a spider, because it was such an insect which 'had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck, to their great namesake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain possession of Scotland, notwithstanding the smallness... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider ; because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck to their great namesake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain possession of Scotland, notwithstanding the smallness... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider; because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck to their great namesake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain .possession of Scotland, notwithstanding the smallness... | |
 | John Charles Tarver - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...with the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider, because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck to their great namesake. Destruction of the Alexandrian Library. The Alexandrian Library was the most celebrated in the world.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider; because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck to their great namesake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain possession of Scotland, notwithstanding the smallness... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider; because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance, and given a signal iif good luck, to their great name-sake. Having determined to renew his efforts to obtain possession... | |
 | Success - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...persuaded of the truth of this story, that they would not on any account kill a spider; because it was that insect which had shown the example of perseverance,...given a signal of good luck, to their great namesake." This fine old illustration of the simple but invaluable maxim—Try again! may not unfitly be conjoined... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...account kill a spider, because it was such an insect which had shown the example of per sever ance, and given a signal of good luck to their great namesake."...sometimes ranked among insects ; but they differ from them them in several respects, especially in not being subject to those changes of form and of habit which... | |
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