 | 1827 - 290 pagina’s
...their species, and betrays his own. ***** Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. * * » * * For forms of government let fools contest ; ' Whate'er is best administer'd, is best : For... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1828 - 106 pagina’s
...from the creatures thy instruction take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind ; Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pagina’s
...instructions take; Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the ben its the physic bf the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive;...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities sec; There towns jerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's... | |
 | 1829 - 906 pagina’s
...from the creatures thy instruction take; Learn from the birds, what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts, the physic of the field; Thy arts...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philosopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pagina’s
...from the creatures thy instruction take ; Learn from the birds what food the thickets yi«ld ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of tUe mole to plough ; the worm, to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar,... | |
 | 1829 - 842 pagina’s
...voice of Nature spake, Go from these creatures, thy instruction take ; Lessons of industry from the ant receive, Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; .Learn of the little Nautilus.to sail, Spread thu thin oar and catch the driving gale. • Learn from the birds that food... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pagina’s
...n. $. Fr. nautile ; lat * tilus. A shell fish furnished with somtik; analogous to oars and a sail. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gileiff' The little ntmtitui, with purple pride Expands his sails, and dances o'er the v\ -v Gnrf This... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pagina’s
...Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the...the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to rail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale— The worker from the work distinct was known,... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - 342 pagina’s
...the creatures thy instruction take : ' Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; ' Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; ' Thy arts...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' ' Each crawling insect holds a rank ' Important in the plan of Him who framed ' This scale of beings.'... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1832 - 430 pagina’s
...breadth; while the rotundata of the Mediterranean is sometimes 2 feet long. T. Linn. 331-2. (50) The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Essay on Man, Ep. 3. Its animal is a sxpia or clio, and inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian Seas.... | |
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Thus then to man the voice of nature spake — "Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole... 
