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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... 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 appears , that Nature never ...
... 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 appears , that Nature never ...
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... fometimes very prejudicial to him ; and , as fuch , was both foreseen and or- dained . Man wants to be inftructed , as well as fuftained . His Ingratitude is confounded , when these Infects deprive him of what God had dif play'd to his ...
... fometimes very prejudicial to him ; and , as fuch , was both foreseen and or- dained . Man wants to be inftructed , as well as fuftained . His Ingratitude is confounded , when these Infects deprive him of what God had dif play'd to his ...
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... . Count . Towards the End of Summer , and fome- times fooner , these Infects , when they are fatiated with Verdure , and have changed their Skin feveral times , cease to eat , and employ themselves in times , 38 DIALOGUE II .
... . Count . Towards the End of Summer , and fome- times fooner , these Infects , when they are fatiated with Verdure , and have changed their Skin feveral times , cease to eat , and employ themselves in times , 38 DIALOGUE II .
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... fome- times in a strait , or elfe in a circular Situation : Sometimes they Wind them in a spiral Line , round a small Branch , and always faften them with fuch a binding Glew , that the heaviest Rains can't wash them away . You will ...
... fome- times in a strait , or elfe in a circular Situation : Sometimes they Wind them in a spiral Line , round a small Branch , and always faften them with fuch a binding Glew , that the heaviest Rains can't wash them away . You will ...
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... fometimes take the Air towards Noon , in a fine Sunfhine , and fometimes in the Night when the Weather is fettled . When you would open their Retreat , you must employ a little Strength to break the Tiffue that forms it , which is ...
... fometimes take the Air towards Noon , in a fine Sunfhine , and fometimes in the Night when the Weather is fettled . When you would open their Retreat , you must employ a little Strength to break the Tiffue that forms it , which is ...
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