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The juvenile wreath; poems chiefly on subjects of natural history [by T ... - Page 2
by Thomas Gillet - 1832
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History ..., Volume 1

William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her penciL Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals*;...
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The Entomologist's Useful Compendium: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge ...

George Samouelle - Entomology - 1819 - 532 pages
...curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals ;...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 7

1820 - 490 pages
...curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metaU; in...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals ;...
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History ..., Volume 1

William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals a...
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The Assistant of Education: Religious and Literary, Intended for ..., Volume 5

Education - 1825 - 422 pages
...curious and singular in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre Uke that of burnished metals ;...
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Assistant of Education, Volume 5

Education - 1825 - 404 pages
...curious and singular in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals ;...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1828 - 590 pages
...alluring, or curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children, and even to the minutest has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Some she has armed with glittering mail, possessing all the lustre of burnished n:etals : in others...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 2

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 518 pages
...curious and singular in every other class and order of her children. To these her valued miniatures she has given the most delicate touch, and highest finish of her pencil, (p. 10.) " The splendid appearance of the plumage of tropical birds is not superior to what the curious...
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Gill's technological [afterw.] Gill's scientific, technological ..., Volume 6

Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1830 - 420 pages
...curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch, and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals ;...
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