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... bury them- selves in the earth or sand , and re - appear in a few minutes . These are the fossorial wasps , the interesting habits of which have been studied by Mr. J. H. Fabre , of Avignon . They are not gregarious , but lead solitary ...
... bury them- selves in the earth or sand , and re - appear in a few minutes . These are the fossorial wasps , the interesting habits of which have been studied by Mr. J. H. Fabre , of Avignon . They are not gregarious , but lead solitary ...
Page 28
... bury their sting in the nervous centre which controls the movements of the legs . When animals with soft bodies , such as spiders and young crickets , are attacked , the operation does not present any difficulties . But Coleoptera in ...
... bury their sting in the nervous centre which controls the movements of the legs . When animals with soft bodies , such as spiders and young crickets , are attacked , the operation does not present any difficulties . But Coleoptera in ...
Page 129
... bury their old men alive , on the pretext that they have become utterly useless . The custom is in existence throughout Melanesia , and occurs in New Caledonia and in most of the adjacent Polynesian islands . Old age is universally ...
... bury their old men alive , on the pretext that they have become utterly useless . The custom is in existence throughout Melanesia , and occurs in New Caledonia and in most of the adjacent Polynesian islands . Old age is universally ...
Page 139
... bury with his kinsman the weapons , clothes , and ornaments that he used in life , to try to feed the corpse , to put a cigar in the mouth of the skull before its final burial , to lay playthings in the infant's grave . But one thought ...
... bury with his kinsman the weapons , clothes , and ornaments that he used in life , to try to feed the corpse , to put a cigar in the mouth of the skull before its final burial , to lay playthings in the infant's grave . But one thought ...
Page 140
... bury dogs and weapons . The negroes of the Gold Coast , at the funeral of a great man , kill women and slaves that he may be provided for in the next world . Moreover , they bury with him his finest apparel , his gilded fetishes , and ...
... bury dogs and weapons . The negroes of the Gold Coast , at the funeral of a great man , kill women and slaves that he may be provided for in the next world . Moreover , they bury with him his finest apparel , his gilded fetishes , and ...
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Page 291 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 161 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 291 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Page 160 - LORD empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Page 278 - Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
Page 13 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Page 289 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 175 - tis not in The harmony of things, — this hard decree, This uneradicable taint of sin, This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree...
Page 82 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die...
Page 224 - I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.