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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Page iii
... Shells , we proceed to Birds , terreftrial Animals , and Fishes . After an Examination of Part of the Services they yield us , we pass to thofe we receive from Plants , with an Attempt thro ' the Whole , to mix Improvement with Variety ...
... Shells , we proceed to Birds , terreftrial Animals , and Fishes . After an Examination of Part of the Services they yield us , we pass to thofe we receive from Plants , with an Attempt thro ' the Whole , to mix Improvement with Variety ...
Page x
... Shell of a Lion - Pifmire to Pieces , that the Particles of Sand , which compofe it , are not confolidated together , but were fufpen- ded by fmall Fibres of Silk , like the Beads of a Chaplet ; we thought it proper to observe , that ...
... Shell of a Lion - Pifmire to Pieces , that the Particles of Sand , which compofe it , are not confolidated together , but were fufpen- ded by fmall Fibres of Silk , like the Beads of a Chaplet ; we thought it proper to observe , that ...
Page xvi
... Shell as it comes out of the Egg . C. The Collar and musculous Skin , by the Aid of which the Snail marches forwards . D. His four Telescopes . E. Several Fractures made in divers Snails , and which have been re- paired by their Sweat ...
... Shell as it comes out of the Egg . C. The Collar and musculous Skin , by the Aid of which the Snail marches forwards . D. His four Telescopes . E. Several Fractures made in divers Snails , and which have been re- paired by their Sweat ...
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... Shells with great Vigour , and fcatter themselves over a large Extent of Land ; others are really furnished with little Wings , which convey them , by the Affiftance of the Wind , to a great Distance ; and others , befide this Advantage ...
... Shells with great Vigour , and fcatter themselves over a large Extent of Land ; others are really furnished with little Wings , which convey them , by the Affiftance of the Wind , to a great Distance ; and others , befide this Advantage ...
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... Shell incloses , there is lodged in it a minute A- nimal , which no Hand but that of the Deity could form , with a Refemblance to its female Parent . This little Creature , protected by the Shell that furrounds it , in confequence of a ...
... Shell incloses , there is lodged in it a minute A- nimal , which no Hand but that of the Deity could form , with a Refemblance to its female Parent . This little Creature , protected by the Shell that furrounds it , in confequence of a ...
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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