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... gives considerable plausi- bility to the notion of their being brought by winds ; for whence , we may ask , could they otherwise come ? Simply , we reply , from the eggs deposited the preceding autumn , which , all having been laid at ...
... gives considerable plausi- bility to the notion of their being brought by winds ; for whence , we may ask , could they otherwise come ? Simply , we reply , from the eggs deposited the preceding autumn , which , all having been laid at ...
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... give as well as get ; and with their little instinct read a lesson to you and to me as to what we , who have reason and intelligence , should do with both . How many lessons , not only of self - help but mutual help , may be learned ...
... give as well as get ; and with their little instinct read a lesson to you and to me as to what we , who have reason and intelligence , should do with both . How many lessons , not only of self - help but mutual help , may be learned ...
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... and round , and at last , comfortably covering its head in its tail , it goes off to sleep . That is the habit peculiar to its wild nature which through ages of civiliza- tion it appears never to lose ; but give it. CHAPTER VI REASON.
... and round , and at last , comfortably covering its head in its tail , it goes off to sleep . That is the habit peculiar to its wild nature which through ages of civiliza- tion it appears never to lose ; but give it. CHAPTER VI REASON.
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... give it straw upon which to sleep , and then compare its self - made bed with an ants ' nest or a bees ' hive , and you will see how much better it is to have little brains and make good use of them , as an intelligent being , than to ...
... give it straw upon which to sleep , and then compare its self - made bed with an ants ' nest or a bees ' hive , and you will see how much better it is to have little brains and make good use of them , as an intelligent being , than to ...
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... gives the finish- ing touch with the bushy end of its tail , using its claws as a comb . You would naturally expect to ... give its hide a thorough cleansing . But before this , my friend , who re- lated this story to me as the result of ...
... gives the finish- ing touch with the bushy end of its tail , using its claws as a comb . You would naturally expect to ... give its hide a thorough cleansing . But before this , my friend , who re- lated this story to me as the result of ...
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Page 3 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 27 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 3 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 4 - Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain ; the river its channel in the soil; the animal its bones in the stratum ; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
Page 19 - THESE Emmets, how little they are in our eyes! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern : Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to their school, There's many a sluggard and many a fool Some lessons of wisdom might learn.
Page 188 - The ashes of an oak in the chimney, are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great persons...
Page 3 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 45 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 15 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 9 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, "See, this is new?" it hath been already of old time, which was before us.