Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 3T. Bensley and sold by J. Wallis, 1800 |
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... perfect state , is an inhabitant of the air alone , and is deprived of life the moment it is immersed in water , could subsist in that element only while it was in a state of gradual increment : during its long state of non - age , then ...
... perfect state , is an inhabitant of the air alone , and is deprived of life the moment it is immersed in water , could subsist in that element only while it was in a state of gradual increment : during its long state of non - age , then ...
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... perfect state , I caused the cloth to be spread over the tub , above which the light was held ; immediately the cloth was almost concealed by the vast multitudes which fell upon it ; and they could be gathered almost in hand- fuls upon ...
... perfect state , I caused the cloth to be spread over the tub , above which the light was held ; immediately the cloth was almost concealed by the vast multitudes which fell upon it ; and they could be gathered almost in hand- fuls upon ...
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... perfect accuracy . Reaumur was imperfectly acquainted with this opera- tion , and obscurely describes it in one of the species . Geoffrey describes it more particularly ; but not hav- ing adverted to the insect in its aquatic nymph ...
... perfect accuracy . Reaumur was imperfectly acquainted with this opera- tion , and obscurely describes it in one of the species . Geoffrey describes it more particularly ; but not hav- ing adverted to the insect in its aquatic nymph ...
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... perfect than another which exprefses it in a blundering manner , and is incapable of marking such distinctions . In conformity with this mode of beautifying and improving our language , we are taught on no account to make use of the ...
... perfect than another which exprefses it in a blundering manner , and is incapable of marking such distinctions . In conformity with this mode of beautifying and improving our language , we are taught on no account to make use of the ...
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... perfect specimens by the care of Dr. Charles Campbell of Fort Marlburgh , so as to be en- abled perfectly to identify the plant , by ascertaining its botanical characters . The juice which affords this concrete is , like all the others ...
... perfect specimens by the care of Dr. Charles Campbell of Fort Marlburgh , so as to be en- abled perfectly to identify the plant , by ascertaining its botanical characters . The juice which affords this concrete is , like all the others ...
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Page 235 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Page 236 - ... to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent. How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order ; and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, where, if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient...
Page 235 - ... of the sages; there is no force, there are no prisons, no officers to compel obedience, or inflict punishment. Hence they generally study oratory; the best speaker having the most influence. The Indian women till the ground, dress the food, nurse and bring up the children, and preserve and hand down to posterity the memory of public transactions.
Page 285 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 168 - As those we love decay, we die in part, String after string is sever'd from the heart ; Till loosen'd life at last — but breathing clay, Without one pang, is glad to fall away. Unhappy he who latest feels the blow, Whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, Dragg'd lingering on from partial death to death, Till dying, all he can resign is breath.
Page 239 - Conrad answered all his questions; and when the discourse began to flag, the Indian, to continue it, said, "Conrad, you have lived long among the white people, and know something of their customs; I have been sometimes at Albany, and have observed that once in seven days they shut up their shops and assemble all in the great house; tell me what it is for? What do they do there?" "They meet there," says Conrad, "to hear and learn good things.
Page 239 - ... guides, or any necessaries for continuing their journey; and nothing is exacted for the entertainment. The same hospitality, esteemed among them as a principal virtue, is practised by private persons; of which Conrad Weiser, our interpreter, gave me the following instance. He had been naturalized among the Six Nations, and spoke well the Mohawk language.
Page 241 - ... and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on ; we demand nothing in return. But, if I go into a white man's house at Albany, and ask for victuals and drink, they say, 'Where is your money?' and if I have none, they say,
Page 237 - What you have told us," says he, "is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers.
Page 235 - Nations would send down half a dozen of their sons to that college, the government would take care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the white people. It is one of the Indian rules of politeness, not to answer a public proposition the same day that it is made ; they think it would be treating it as a light matter, and that they show it respect by taking time to consider it, as of a matter important.