The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Band 2Nathan Drake Suttaby, Evance, and Company, 1811 |
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... periods . All of them , who undergo a transformation , pass through an interme- diate state , called chrysalis , nymph , cone , or bean . The mi- ceasing to eat , encloses itself in a sort of tomb , or little monument . There , under a ...
... periods . All of them , who undergo a transformation , pass through an interme- diate state , called chrysalis , nymph , cone , or bean . The mi- ceasing to eat , encloses itself in a sort of tomb , or little monument . There , under a ...
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... periods of its life , having sensa- tions and wants at one time , which it has not at another . It , in short , becomes successively the inhabitant of two or three worlds : and how great the diversity of its operations in these various ...
... periods of its life , having sensa- tions and wants at one time , which it has not at another . It , in short , becomes successively the inhabitant of two or three worlds : and how great the diversity of its operations in these various ...
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... period , when all the parts are grown firm and ready to perform their several offices , the perfect animal appears in the form of its parent , out of the dis- guise of its reptile state . The worms that are thus produced from the eggs ...
... period , when all the parts are grown firm and ready to perform their several offices , the perfect animal appears in the form of its parent , out of the dis- guise of its reptile state . The worms that are thus produced from the eggs ...
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... period . One of these was an expe- riment in regard to the quantity of dew sus- pended in the air at the different periods of the night . The manner of experimenting this , was by hanging up several bundles of tow at dif ferent heights ...
... period . One of these was an expe- riment in regard to the quantity of dew sus- pended in the air at the different periods of the night . The manner of experimenting this , was by hanging up several bundles of tow at dif ferent heights ...
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... period , first destroy all the males of the swarm , and , after that , murder and carry out the remains of their very young . Nature has provided for the support of such part of the progeny as is produced within a certain number , and a ...
... period , first destroy all the males of the swarm , and , after that , murder and carry out the remains of their very young . Nature has provided for the support of such part of the progeny as is produced within a certain number , and a ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abah admiration Æneas Æneid Ajax Aleppo animal animalcules appeared Aristotle arms attention bashaw Beaumont and Fletcher beauty body Cadige called caterpillar charms colour contempt creature Curdistan death delight despise despise the sun Dido divine dreadful earth eggs elegant endeavour father flower fourth estate friends genius give Graces hand happy Hassein hath head heart honour human ideas imagination immediately infinite inhabitants insect INSPECTOR kind living look Lord LUCRETIUS Magiscatzin manner means ment Milton mind motion nature never night objects observation occasion pain parent passions perfect plant pleased pleasure poet poetry Polygnotus praise queen Quintilian Rabieh racter readers reptile scene seemed shew sight silence SILIUS ITALICUS sion soon soul species surface thee thing thou thought thousand tion Tlalock tragedy tree Virgil virtue whole wings worms young Zelis Zocathlan Zulima
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 129 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Seite 373 - Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies...
Seite 281 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure, ease, content — whate'er thy name. That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Seite 373 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad, leaden, downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
Seite 110 - Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Seite 8 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Seite 218 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Seite 41 - IT may seem strange that none of our political writers, in their learned treatises on the English constitution should take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords, and Commons, all entirely passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in this community, and have been long dignified and distinguished by the name of The Mob.
Seite 14 - God, binding themselves by a solemn oath, not for the purposes of any wicked design, but never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate and then reassemble to eat in common a harmless meal.
Seite 68 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...