Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History: Husbandry, and Physick. To which is Added The Calendar of Flora. By Benj. StillingfleetJ. Dodsley; Baker and Leigh; and T. Payne, 1775 - 391 páginas |
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Página 128 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which nature's self would rue.
Página 128 - Thou alone excluded be From this thy universe ? Shall feeble man Think it beneath his proud philosophy To call for thy assistance, and pretend To frame a world, who cannot frame a clod ? — Not to know Thee, is not to know ourselves — Is to know nothing — nothing worth the care Of man's exalted spirit...
Página 168 - They picked out some chosen companions, who might assist them in describing and painting the objects they should meet with. At length they arrived at the moon, and found a palace there well fitted up for their reception. The next day, being very much fatigued with their journey, they kept quiet at home till noon; and being...
Página 169 - Greece, all the country flocked in upon them to hear the wonders of the moon described; but all they could tell was (for that was all they knew), that the ground was covered with green intermixed with flowers, and that the birds...
Página 99 - ... leaves something for the other, as the mouths of all are not equally adapted to lay hold of the grass ; by which means there is sufficient food for all. To this may be referred an economical experiment well known to the Dutch, that when eight cows have been in a pasture, and can no longer get nourishment, two horses will do very well there for some days, and when nothing is left for the horses...
Página 170 - All that feafon is given up ^o idleidlenefs, luxury and paftime. adly. manbood, in which men are employed in fettling, marrying, educating children, providing fortunes for them, and raifing a family.
Página 109 - Our aquatic birds (continues he) are forced by necessity to fly toward the south every autumn, before the water is frozen. Thus we know, that the lakes of Poland and Lithuania are filled with swans and geese every autumn, at which time they go in great flocks, along many rivers, as far as the Euxine Sea.
Página 127 - ... of us often want to have inculcated. From a partial confideration of things, we are very apt to criticife what we ought to admire ; to look upon as ufelefs what perhaps we fhould own to be of infinite advantage to us, did we fee a little farther ; to be...
Página 12 - My defign was, in the little time allotted me, 1 to fpeak to you, gentlemen, not of the peculiar advantages of univerfities, or of fojourning at this, rather than any foreign one ; but chiefly of travelling in one's own countrey, thro...
Página xii - It ought to be confidered that the number of the latter is immenfc, that it is but lately that any great attention has been paid to them, that one of them is and has been long the means of cloathing thoufands and feeding more, that another affords us honey, another a fine dye, not to mention fome few befides, of acknowledged benefit to mankind. Laftly, that they are capable of doing us the...