Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth ... Tr. from the Original French ...L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1766 - Natural history |
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... discover the Inaccuracy of our Works , and the Richness , the Elegance , and infinite Su- periority that shine in those of Nature Obferve the Head of a common Fly in a Magnifying glafs † : One can ne- ver be fatiated with feeing fuch a ...
... discover the Inaccuracy of our Works , and the Richness , the Elegance , and infinite Su- periority that shine in those of Nature Obferve the Head of a common Fly in a Magnifying glafs † : One can ne- ver be fatiated with feeing fuch a ...
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... discover in Cheese , the minutest Eel vifible in Vinegar * , and the most diminutive worm that plays fo nimbly in other Liquors have each of them the Parts I bave enumerated . It is an Animal that fees , and turns afide when interrupted ...
... discover in Cheese , the minutest Eel vifible in Vinegar * , and the most diminutive worm that plays fo nimbly in other Liquors have each of them the Parts I bave enumerated . It is an Animal that fees , and turns afide when interrupted ...
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... discover to me . Count . You are in the right , and should give no Quar . ter to those who can let you into their Explanation . In reading them , you must endeavour to unravel those ancient Hiftories that lie disguised under fome of ...
... discover to me . Count . You are in the right , and should give no Quar . ter to those who can let you into their Explanation . In reading them , you must endeavour to unravel those ancient Hiftories that lie disguised under fome of ...
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... discover the Sockets in which the Quill of each Feather was funk . But that you may have no farther Doubt of this Matter , caft your Eye upon the last Com- partment , where I have fcattered , upon a Lay of Glue , the Duft of all Sorts ...
... discover the Sockets in which the Quill of each Feather was funk . But that you may have no farther Doubt of this Matter , caft your Eye upon the last Com- partment , where I have fcattered , upon a Lay of Glue , the Duft of all Sorts ...
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... discover that with your Glaffes which eludes the most attentive Eyes . Prior : In a few Words , Madam , this is The Anatomy of a Silk - worm , at which The Anatomy your Ladyfhip may affift with all imagina- of a Silk - worm . able ...
... discover that with your Glaffes which eludes the most attentive Eyes . Prior : In a few Words , Madam , this is The Anatomy of a Silk - worm , at which The Anatomy your Ladyfhip may affift with all imagina- of a Silk - worm . able ...
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