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... suppose there are in the butterfly's tongue ? Ah ! they are innumerable . And what is it after all ? Why , the most wonderful sucking - pump in the world ; and how admirably contrived to insert itself into the little complicated ...
... suppose there are in the butterfly's tongue ? Ah ! they are innumerable . And what is it after all ? Why , the most wonderful sucking - pump in the world ; and how admirably contrived to insert itself into the little complicated ...
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... suppose they were sent ? " That locusts , like ants , have some special work to do , I am as fully persuaded as that you and I have something to do . Often it pleases God to chastise wicked nations with a sorer punishment than war . Not ...
... suppose they were sent ? " That locusts , like ants , have some special work to do , I am as fully persuaded as that you and I have something to do . Often it pleases God to chastise wicked nations with a sorer punishment than war . Not ...
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... suppose the ants to be a race of " little people , " separated from the world of men and women , and condemned for some crime to perpetual labour . But of all ant stories , that which lately reached us from Colombo is perhaps the most ...
... suppose the ants to be a race of " little people , " separated from the world of men and women , and condemned for some crime to perpetual labour . But of all ant stories , that which lately reached us from Colombo is perhaps the most ...
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... suppose , cheering and encouraging it in the ant language . All appeared to be over ; the patient fell down , remaining apparently lifeless below , when the friend who came to the rescue ran away , but presently returning , still alone ...
... suppose , cheering and encouraging it in the ant language . All appeared to be over ; the patient fell down , remaining apparently lifeless below , when the friend who came to the rescue ran away , but presently returning , still alone ...
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... suppose , cannibal - like , then fed upon the remains . Episodes of insect life in the matter of self - destruction certainly rank amongst the most romantic in all natural history . I have told you of a certain wasp which , being cut in ...
... suppose , cannibal - like , then fed upon the remains . Episodes of insect life in the matter of self - destruction certainly rank amongst the most romantic in all natural history . I have told you of a certain wasp which , being cut in ...
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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.