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... months , without taking any sustenance , and during so long a fast , some evaporation must assuredly take place ; but to what a shadow would its body be consequently reduced if the greatest part of the liquor which penetrates its ...
... months , without taking any sustenance , and during so long a fast , some evaporation must assuredly take place ; but to what a shadow would its body be consequently reduced if the greatest part of the liquor which penetrates its ...
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... grow a single hair's breadth wider or larger if it were to live as many months as its dura- tion in the perfect state is confined to days . Swammerdam , in his dissection of the chrysalis of a. 36 [ CH . I. NATURAL HISTORY .
... grow a single hair's breadth wider or larger if it were to live as many months as its dura- tion in the perfect state is confined to days . Swammerdam , in his dissection of the chrysalis of a. 36 [ CH . I. NATURAL HISTORY .
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... months before he shut up in a box a certain palmer - worm which he had found , rare for its bigness and form , which ... month , and about the same time an incredible multitude of butterflies were ob- served flying in the air , he was ...
... months before he shut up in a box a certain palmer - worm which he had found , rare for its bigness and form , which ... month , and about the same time an incredible multitude of butterflies were ob- served flying in the air , he was ...
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... months to bring it to perfection , just as though the inhabitants of cold regions were to live four or five centuries , while the life of those dwelling under the equator was only to be extended to its ordinary length : hence it is evi ...
... months to bring it to perfection , just as though the inhabitants of cold regions were to live four or five centuries , while the life of those dwelling under the equator was only to be extended to its ordinary length : hence it is evi ...
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... month of November following , be- ing two months earlier than before , he placed other chrysalides in the hothouses , and these in like man- ner produced perfect insects in the beginning of De- cember , which would not otherwise have ...
... month of November following , be- ing two months earlier than before , he placed other chrysalides in the hothouses , and these in like man- ner produced perfect insects in the beginning of De- cember , which would not otherwise have ...
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Page 43 - 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.
Page 175 - The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 7 - A DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, AND ITS INHABITANTS. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.
Page 137 - Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it scratches the post. But a kettle of scalding hot water injected Infallibly cures the timber affected : The omen is broken, the danger is over ; The maggot will die, and the sick will recover.
Page 230 - Even so luxurious Men , unheeding , pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till , blown away by death , oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.
Page 175 - They shall run like mighty men ; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks, neither shall one thrust another.
Page 175 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 230 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.
Page 175 - They shall run to and fro in the city ; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses ; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.