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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... glew ng the Grains of it together , by an Exhalation of Sweat , but rather by uniting them with a vifcuous Thread . Eight or ten Remarks of this Nature are not of any confiderable Confequence , and add no ex- traordinary Merit to a Book ...
... glew ng the Grains of it together , by an Exhalation of Sweat , but rather by uniting them with a vifcuous Thread . Eight or ten Remarks of this Nature are not of any confiderable Confequence , and add no ex- traordinary Merit to a Book ...
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... a more evident Display , and it appears no lefs in the Disposition of Infects Eggs ; but then the Manner is very different : for where - ever you meet with any of thefe thefe , you will find them faftened by a Glew 16 DIALOGUE I.
... a more evident Display , and it appears no lefs in the Disposition of Infects Eggs ; but then the Manner is very different : for where - ever you meet with any of thefe thefe , you will find them faftened by a Glew 16 DIALOGUE I.
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... Glew fo tenacious , that ' tis fometimes impoffible to dif- engage them , without entirely breaking them ; or else they are fhut up in little Cells of different Forms , but all built with Art , and cautiously de- fended . From whence it ...
... Glew fo tenacious , that ' tis fometimes impoffible to dif- engage them , without entirely breaking them ; or else they are fhut up in little Cells of different Forms , but all built with Art , and cautiously de- fended . From whence it ...
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... Glew , in which Silk - Worms , and fome Cater- pillars wrap themfelves when they become Nymphs . Their laft State . In a Word : Their fourth and last State , the great and final Metamor- phofis which happens to them , is when they rife ...
... Glew , in which Silk - Worms , and fome Cater- pillars wrap themfelves when they become Nymphs . Their laft State . In a Word : Their fourth and last State , the great and final Metamor- phofis which happens to them , is when they rife ...
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... Glew , that unites them by a strong Cohesion , they , by these Means , from one entire Thread , capable of fuf- taining the Animal's Body in the Air * . Countefs . Methinks I fee one of our Ropemakers , who , after he has faftened the ...
... Glew , that unites them by a strong Cohesion , they , by these Means , from one entire Thread , capable of fuf- taining the Animal's Body in the Air * . Countefs . Methinks I fee one of our Ropemakers , who , after he has faftened the ...
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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