The Book of Nature Laid Open: In a Popular Survey of the Phenomena and Constitution of the UniverseJ. Milligan, 1822 - 281 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... young , its instinctive habits , Man , intellectual pre - eminence of , Marble , Alabaster , Flint , & c . Metals , their nature and importance , Meteors , fiery , the use of , Meteors , watery , 3 10 8 180 176 Mineral kingdom ...
... young , its instinctive habits , Man , intellectual pre - eminence of , Marble , Alabaster , Flint , & c . Metals , their nature and importance , Meteors , fiery , the use of , Meteors , watery , 3 10 8 180 176 Mineral kingdom ...
Pagina 27
... young root turns of itself downwards , while the stem refuses to sink deeper in the soil , and bends itself round to shoot up through the surface of the earth . How surprising , that when the roots of a tree or plant meet with a stone ...
... young root turns of itself downwards , while the stem refuses to sink deeper in the soil , and bends itself round to shoot up through the surface of the earth . How surprising , that when the roots of a tree or plant meet with a stone ...
Pagina 47
... young at a time ; while those of the greatest utility or such as are used for animal food , abound in every climate , and the short in duration are uncommonly prolific ! The instinct displayed by many of the irrational creation for the ...
... young at a time ; while those of the greatest utility or such as are used for animal food , abound in every climate , and the short in duration are uncommonly prolific ! The instinct displayed by many of the irrational creation for the ...
Pagina 53
... young in the middle , and keep them safe in the day of battle ! These are some of the wonders of instinct ; —and can we behold them without admiration ! The Uses of Quadrupeds Are so various , that we must content ourselves with only ...
... young in the middle , and keep them safe in the day of battle ! These are some of the wonders of instinct ; —and can we behold them without admiration ! The Uses of Quadrupeds Are so various , that we must content ourselves with only ...
Pagina 62
... young , were allowed to bring forth . her litter in one place ( in Britain suppose , the place of her nativity , ) she would produce true grey- hounds , but if she were carried to Norway , the lit- ter would turn out to be mastiffs ; in ...
... young , were allowed to bring forth . her litter in one place ( in Britain suppose , the place of her nativity , ) she would produce true grey- hounds , but if she were carried to Norway , the lit- ter would turn out to be mastiffs ; in ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 196 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Pagina 68 - Nestling repair, and to the Thicket some; Some to the rude Protection of the Thorn Commit their feeble Offspring. The cleft Tree Offers its kind Concealment to a Few, Their Food its Insects, and its Moss their Nests. Others apart far in the grassy Dale, Or roughening Waste, their humble Texture weave.
Pagina 98 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound ; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.
Pagina 188 - Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Pagina 29 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Pagina 218 - What an august ! what an amazing conception, if human imagination can conceive it, does this give of the works of the Creator ! Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds...
Pagina 226 - The master leans, removes the obstructing clay, Winds the whole work, and sidelong lays the glebe. White, through the neighbouring fields the sower stalks, With measured step, and liberal throws the grain Into the faithful bosom of the ground ; The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene.
Pagina 212 - For minds of the first magnitude to launch In endless speculation, and adore ? One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine : And light us deep into the Deity ; How boundless in magnificence and might...
Pagina 67 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Pagina 83 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank, Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which nature's self would rue.