Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth. ... Translated from the Original French, by Mr. Humphreys |
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... Chevalier du BREUIL . Count . I F we intend to take our ufual Walk , it is time to prepare for it . It grows late : Let us be gone . Chevalier . Here's the Prior come very feasonably to make one of the Party . Prior . Gentlemen , I ...
... Chevalier du BREUIL . Count . I F we intend to take our ufual Walk , it is time to prepare for it . It grows late : Let us be gone . Chevalier . Here's the Prior come very feasonably to make one of the Party . Prior . Gentlemen , I ...
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... Chevalier . I am always uneafy to leave it : The Count has filled this , and the two next Apartments , with fo many Curiofities , that one can never be tired with beholding them . Count . Do you think fo , Sir ? No : Paris , from whence ...
... Chevalier . I am always uneafy to leave it : The Count has filled this , and the two next Apartments , with fo many Curiofities , that one can never be tired with beholding them . Count . Do you think fo , Sir ? No : Paris , from whence ...
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... Chevalier . I conceive your Lordship's mean- ing : You would give me to understand , that Men judge wrong ; prize Trifles , and neglect what is truly fine and fatisfactory . Count . Since you enter into my Thoughts fo justly , I will ...
... Chevalier . I conceive your Lordship's mean- ing : You would give me to understand , that Men judge wrong ; prize Trifles , and neglect what is truly fine and fatisfactory . Count . Since you enter into my Thoughts fo justly , I will ...
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... Chevalier , that when People exprefs themselves in this Manner , they understand what they talk about ? What is meant by the Corruption of a Body ; ' Tis the Diffolution of its Parts . For Inftance , Meats and Wine turn to Putrefaction ...
... Chevalier , that when People exprefs themselves in this Manner , they understand what they talk about ? What is meant by the Corruption of a Body ; ' Tis the Diffolution of its Parts . For Inftance , Meats and Wine turn to Putrefaction ...
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... CHEVALIER . Count . I Don't fee any Body here . My Lady's Company is all withdrawn . Let us place ourselves in this Arbour , and continue our Hiftory of Infects . Prior . The Chevalier has been reading to me this Morning , a Summary of ...
... CHEVALIER . Count . I Don't fee any Body here . My Lady's Company is all withdrawn . Let us place ourselves in this Arbour , and continue our Hiftory of Infects . Prior . The Chevalier has been reading to me this Morning , a Summary of ...
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afcend Affiftance againſt Animals Bark becauſe Bees befide beſt Birds Body Caterpillars Cells Chev Chevalier Chives cloſe Colours compleat compofed Confequence Count Countefs Countess Curiofity defire diſcover Diſtance Earth Eggs faften fame fecond feems feen feminal fenfible ferves feveral fhall fhould Fibres fince firft firſt Fiſh Flowers fmall fome fometimes Form ftill ftrong fuch fufficient fuftain fupplied furniſhed Glew herſelf himſelf Hive Induſtry Infects Inftance inſtead itſelf Juices Labours laft leaft leaſt Leaves lefs likewife Manner moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature neceffary Neft Nouriſhment Number Nymph obferve Occafion Paffage pafs Plant pleaſe Pleaſure prefent preferve Prior Provifions Purpoſe raiſe Reafon reft rife Seed ſhe Shell Silk Silk-Worms Skin ſmall Species Spider thefe thefe Creatures themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand Thread thro tion Tree Trunk uſe Utricles Veffels Wafps Water whofe whole Wings Wood Worm Young