 | Benjamin Kilborne - 2002 - 218 pages
...submission, power and helplessness, and vulnerability and rage. 20 LITERARY LITTLENESS AND MINIATURIZATION So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller Fleas to bite 'em And so proceed ad infinitum Charles Dickens 22 speaks of Mrs. Chirrup as "a pocket... | |
 | Michael C. Corballis - 2003 - 280 pages
...within those items, and so on. One is reminded of Jonathan Swift's comment on fleas: So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em And so proceed ad infinitum." Some features of language, therefore, such as its generativity... | |
 | Stuart L. Pimm - 2002 - 268 pages
...functional aspects of the complexity-stability problem. 6 The length of food chains So, Naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em. And so proceed ad infinitum. 6.1 INTRODUCTION (Swift, 1772) The energy which plants... | |
 | Bill Bryson - 2003 - 562 pages
...life on Earth was seemingly infinite, as Jonathan Swift noted in some famous lines: So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;...smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum. All this new information needed to be filed, ordered, and compared with what was known. The world was... | |
 | Colin B. Grant - 2003 - 346 pages
...Garfinkel's "unique adequacy" requirement. According to Jonathan Swift (1733: 353): So naturalists observe a flea Hath smaller fleas, that on him prey;...smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. The proposal advanced here is that the observation of social reality reveals language games (Wittgenstein... | |
 | Andrew H. Knoll - 2003 - 300 pages
...ecosystems. Doggerel by Jonathan Swift captures the consequences nicely: So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum. By expanding ecosystem complexity, eukaryotic cells erected a new scaffolding for diversity. Eukaryotic... | |
 | Charles R. Anderson - 2003 - 236 pages
...you sit You rarely bit, are always bit; Each poet of inferior Size On you shall rail and criticize; So Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, and these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, and so proceed ad infinitum. Aside from fleas or bugs, you also do not want "ghosties... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - 1996 - 954 pages
...greater still, and so on" (1872, 377). The original version of the poem is by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): "So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller Fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum: \ Thus ev'ry poet in his Kind, | Is bit by him that... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 2003 - 340 pages
...adultery in 1874. 7. Lines 353-56 of Jonathan Swift's "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" (1733) run: "So naturalists observe, a flea / Hath smaller fleas that on him prey, / And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, / And so proceed ad injinitum." 8. In a rarefied condition. g. As may be deduced from... | |
 | Victor M. M. Lobo - 2003 - 244 pages
...thought is expressed graphically by Jonathan Swift in his "on Poetry (1733, p.337) "So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infmitum. Thus every poet, in his kind Is bit by him that come... | |
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey ; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. 
