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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... 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 . If we have not always ...
... 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 . If we have not always ...
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... Birds , besides an infinite Variety of others , whofe Body is an Affemblage of many little Şcales , which di- late by unfolding themselves , or contract by flid- ing over one another , like Braffets or Cuiffes , in our old Suits of ...
... Birds , besides an infinite Variety of others , whofe Body is an Affemblage of many little Şcales , which di- late by unfolding themselves , or contract by flid- ing over one another , like Braffets or Cuiffes , in our old Suits of ...
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... ones . You will find Bee- tles , May Birds and Spanifo Flies , furnished with thefe Cafes . You may alfo obferve Numbers who have only two Wings ; but under these you will perceive as many Bladders , or hollow Vef- fels will 8 DIALOGUE I.
... ones . You will find Bee- tles , May Birds and Spanifo Flies , furnished with thefe Cafes . You may alfo obferve Numbers who have only two Wings ; but under these you will perceive as many Bladders , or hollow Vef- fels will 8 DIALOGUE I.
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... Bird make itself a convenient Neft ; I fay , we shall find all this actuating a little Fly , in her Choice of a commo- dious Manfion for her minute Pofterity . No In- fect abandons her Eggs to Chance , and the Pa- rent is never deceived ...
... Bird make itself a convenient Neft ; I fay , we shall find all this actuating a little Fly , in her Choice of a commo- dious Manfion for her minute Pofterity . No In- fect abandons her Eggs to Chance , and the Pa- rent is never deceived ...
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... Bird , or crushed by the moving Branches , they shed a few Drops of this Gum upon the Tree ; and then , precipitating themselves , fpin it in their Descent through feveral Orifices of their Bodies , that * See Godart's general History ...
... Bird , or crushed by the moving Branches , they shed a few Drops of this Gum upon the Tree ; and then , precipitating themselves , fpin it in their Descent through feveral Orifices of their Bodies , that * See Godart's general History ...
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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