Harry Beaufoy, Or, The Pupil of NatureThomas Kite, 1828 - Всего страниц: 95 |
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... butterfly , because it prefers a future good to a present pleasure . " " You are mistaken , my dear boy . The in- dustrious bee and the giddy butterfly are equally intent upon their present gratification , and equally regardless of ...
... butterfly , because it prefers a future good to a present pleasure . " " You are mistaken , my dear boy . The in- dustrious bee and the giddy butterfly are equally intent upon their present gratification , and equally regardless of ...
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... butterflies fluttering over that bed of cabbages . They appear wholly intent on amusing themselves ; they are , in fact , desiring nothing , seeking nothing , but their own gratifica- tion ; yet they are unconsciously obeying the di ...
... butterflies fluttering over that bed of cabbages . They appear wholly intent on amusing themselves ; they are , in fact , desiring nothing , seeking nothing , but their own gratifica- tion ; yet they are unconsciously obeying the di ...
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... butterfly does not taste the cabbage ; it is no food for her but she is acting under a wise direction , which impels her to lay her eggs on the leaves of such plants as are best adapted to the nourishment of the young caterpillars ...
... butterfly does not taste the cabbage ; it is no food for her but she is acting under a wise direction , which impels her to lay her eggs on the leaves of such plants as are best adapted to the nourishment of the young caterpillars ...
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Maria Hack. the difficulty . As the butterfly , in her caterpillar state , had no one to instruct her , ' how could she tell that she herself proceeded from the egg of a winged insect , or that the egg which she deposits on the cabbage ...
Maria Hack. the difficulty . As the butterfly , in her caterpillar state , had no one to instruct her , ' how could she tell that she herself proceeded from the egg of a winged insect , or that the egg which she deposits on the cabbage ...
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... butterfly to his mother . Cautiously advancing his hand , he seized it dexterously , at the moment when it had closed its wings , and ran away as fast as he could . " Here , mamma , " cried he , " here is a butter- fly worth twenty ...
... butterfly to his mother . Cautiously advancing his hand , he seized it dexterously , at the moment when it had closed its wings , and ran away as fast as he could . " Here , mamma , " cried he , " here is a butter- fly worth twenty ...
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Стр. 68 - Instinct is th' unerring guide, What Pope or Council can they need beside? Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest...
Стр. 85 - Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : • Here subterranean works and cities see, There towns aerial on the waving tree.
Стр. 85 - 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 to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Стр. 53 - ... presses the sides of the arteries with greater force than it acts against the coats of the veins. To prevent any danger from this difference of pressure, the arteries are formed of much tougher and stronger materials than the veins. This is one difference between the two ; there is another still more strikingly illustrative of the care of the Great Artificer. As a wound in the arteries, through which the blood passes with such force from the heart, would be more dangerous than a wound in the...
Стр. 51 - The good citizens of London may use the water, or waste it, as they please; but the precious fluid, conveyed by the arteries to the ends of the fingers, must be returned to the heart; for on its unceasing circulation our health depends. In order to effect this purpose...
Стр. 53 - ... sheltered situation. They are deeply buried among the muscles, or they creep along grooves made for them in the bones. The under side of the ribs is sloped and furrowed, to allow these important tubes...
Стр. 90 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Стр. 54 - ... especially in the arterial system, there is, in many parts, only a membrane, a skin, a thread.
Стр. 71 - ... that could give me the least idea of wax ; I conceived these scales might be it, at least I thought it necessary to investigate them. I therefore took several on the point of a needle, and held them to a candle, where they melted, and immediately formed themselves into a round globe...
Стр. 1 - But touches some above, and some below; Learns, from this union of the rising whole, The first, last purpose of the human soul; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end, in love of God, and love of man.