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 ii
... 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 every Eye , tho ' very little confulted , that we propofe to ...
... 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 every Eye , tho ' very little confulted , that we propofe to ...
Page xi
... fince a Profufion of them would have appeared , to many of our Readers , rather perplexing , than explanatory or im- proving . When we write for the Learned , we need not be apprehenfive of degrading our- Jelves in their Opinion , by ...
... fince a Profufion of them would have appeared , to many of our Readers , rather perplexing , than explanatory or im- proving . When we write for the Learned , we need not be apprehenfive of degrading our- Jelves in their Opinion , by ...
Page xii
... fince Per- Jons of all Ages and States of Life , are defirous of being affected with pleafing Impreffions , and to have their Imagi- nations filled with the Wonders which are conftantly exhibited around us by the Deity , in the leaft ...
... fince Per- Jons of all Ages and States of Life , are defirous of being affected with pleafing Impreffions , and to have their Imagi- nations filled with the Wonders which are conftantly exhibited around us by the Deity , in the leaft ...
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... fince I find you as much a Friend to Truth as you are to the Marvellous , I fhall charge myself with the Care of all your Pleasures , and intend to bring you ac- quainted with a Syftem of Metamorphofes infi- nitely more furprizing than ...
... fince I find you as much a Friend to Truth as you are to the Marvellous , I fhall charge myself with the Care of all your Pleasures , and intend to bring you ac- quainted with a Syftem of Metamorphofes infi- nitely more furprizing than ...
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... fince you have already acquired a Habit of Thinking , and can exprefs the Thoughts of others with fuch a Grace and Perfpicuity , you have gained a noble Point , and we intend to make you the Fontenelle of our Academy . Count . Where did ...
... fince you have already acquired a Habit of Thinking , and can exprefs the Thoughts of others with fuch a Grace and Perfpicuity , you have gained a noble Point , and we intend to make you the Fontenelle of our Academy . Count . Where did ...
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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