On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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Page 91
... curious pictures , which an active imagination converts into towns , villages , steeples , and temples . These , beheld in a hemisphere illumined by the aurora , where the stars are reflected from the snow , and the moon preserves a ...
... curious pictures , which an active imagination converts into towns , villages , steeples , and temples . These , beheld in a hemisphere illumined by the aurora , where the stars are reflected from the snow , and the moon preserves a ...
Page 164
... curious for their protection Thus the ichneumon - fly deposites its eggs in the body of a caterpillar with the point of its sting . These become maggots , which feed upon the live body of the caterpillar that matured them . The sphinx ...
... curious for their protection Thus the ichneumon - fly deposites its eggs in the body of a caterpillar with the point of its sting . These become maggots , which feed upon the live body of the caterpillar that matured them . The sphinx ...
Page 253
... curious exemplification of the affection of the human heart for natural beauty is afforded in the in- stance of Michael Howe , the last and most execra- ble of all the bush - rangers of Van Diemen's Land . This man , having been ...
... curious exemplification of the affection of the human heart for natural beauty is afforded in the in- stance of Michael Howe , the last and most execra- ble of all the bush - rangers of Van Diemen's Land . This man , having been ...
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