 | Christopher Edwards Gadsden - 1833 - 362 pages
...object of commiseration. For God doth take care for cattle. " And the poor beetle that we tread on, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as When a giant dies." It is, however, towards his brethren of the human race that man's compassion should especially be extended.... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...not difficult to adduce numerous facts, proving that the converse of our great "poet's conclusion, " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pane; as great As when a giant dies." must be nearer the truth. A humble bee, for example, will eat... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1835 - 184 pages
...excepted " A variety of facts being adduced to prove the converse of the great poet's conclusion, that " The poor beetle that we tread upon. In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies" — it is added, " These facts, out of hundreds that might be adduced, are surely sufficient to prove... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Birds - 1835 - 496 pages
...because tbey are upon one level as to the suffering of pain: ' The poor beetle, that we tread upon, ID corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies/ " But I insist," proceeded Mr. Paulett, " upon this view of my subject, chiefly because it is too much... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 364 pages
...should'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? .'.The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." I'"'- I , 'I* This is physically false, but morally true. From man, in whom the nervous system is most... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The ssffie of death is moit in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, thai we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giaat dies." system. It is sufficiently evident that life itself depends upon the same principle in... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - Animal welfare - 1838 - 246 pages
...of our naturalists. Isabella, wishing to dissuade Claudio from fearing death, says, "Dar'stthoudie? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." The meaning of these lines is not that a beetle suffers as much bodily pain in dying as a giant, but... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...supported, calmly say, " The former things have passed away." ON CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. BY MISS PARDOE. " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." ' IT would appear almost superfluous to insist on the gratuitous folly, as well as on the enormous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...should'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? peare William" William Shakespeare( finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Claud. Why give you me this shame '! Think you I can a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a peqietual honour. Uar'st thou die ? The sens« peace, Paulina : Thou should'st a husband take by my consent, As I by thin U' (n 111. Sam I. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Au Ш In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a... | |
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Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance... 
