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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... compleat of all Books , proper to cultivate our Reafon , fince fee comprehends at once the Objects of every Science , and never confines her In- ftructions to any particular Language or People . It is from this Book , lying open to ...
... compleat of all Books , proper to cultivate our Reafon , fince fee comprehends at once the Objects of every Science , and never confines her In- ftructions to any particular Language or People . It is from this Book , lying open to ...
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... compleat- ly formed : Thefe Laws have fubfifted from the Beginning of the World , and were never subject to the leaft Variation . Chev . How , my Lord , has an Infect , and even a creeping Worm , had a Mother , like a Lion , who is the ...
... compleat- ly formed : Thefe Laws have fubfifted from the Beginning of the World , and were never subject to the leaft Variation . Chev . How , my Lord , has an Infect , and even a creeping Worm , had a Mother , like a Lion , who is the ...
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... compleat its Growth . When the Creature has acquired its perfect Form , and is invited , by a genial Warmth , to quit the Scene of its Confinement , it bursts the large Ex- tremity of its Inclosure , which always corresponds with its ...
... compleat its Growth . When the Creature has acquired its perfect Form , and is invited , by a genial Warmth , to quit the Scene of its Confinement , it bursts the large Ex- tremity of its Inclosure , which always corresponds with its ...
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... Prior . What feems to compleat the Proof that these Drones are fo many Stalions , deftined only to multiply their Species , is this ; they are liberally provided provided for , the whole Summer , but when the Of INSECT S. III.
... Prior . What feems to compleat the Proof that these Drones are fo many Stalions , deftined only to multiply their Species , is this ; they are liberally provided provided for , the whole Summer , but when the Of INSECT S. III.
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... compleat Analyfis of a Bee's Body ; it will be fufficient , my dear Chevalier , to take Notice of the principal Parts with which Nature has fupplied them , and the Ufe to which they are devoted . I VOL . 1 . The 1 The Form of a Bee ...
... compleat Analyfis of a Bee's Body ; it will be fufficient , my dear Chevalier , to take Notice of the principal Parts with which Nature has fupplied them , and the Ufe to which they are devoted . I VOL . 1 . The 1 The Form of a Bee ...
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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