An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - Entomology |
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... legs of the kangaroo give a most grotesque appear- ance to a fourth 1 ; and the threatening head of the snake is found in a fifth . It would , however , be endless to produce all the instances which occur of such imitations ; and I ...
... legs of the kangaroo give a most grotesque appear- ance to a fourth 1 ; and the threatening head of the snake is found in a fifth . It would , however , be endless to produce all the instances which occur of such imitations ; and I ...
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... legs of insects ; for , as he speaks of them as going upon four legs , it is evident that he considered the two anterior as arms . Solomon , the wisest of mankind , made Na- tural History a peculiar object of study , and left treatises ...
... legs of insects ; for , as he speaks of them as going upon four legs , it is evident that he considered the two anterior as arms . Solomon , the wisest of mankind , made Na- tural History a peculiar object of study , and left treatises ...
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... legs , and contrive to make a comfortable meal through the interstices of their silken or cotton coverings . Did it , I pray , ever enter into your conception , that these blood - thirsty tormentors are a dif- ferent species from those ...
... legs , and contrive to make a comfortable meal through the interstices of their silken or cotton coverings . Did it , I pray , ever enter into your conception , that these blood - thirsty tormentors are a dif- ferent species from those ...
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... leg , or were a sword or spear run through his body , he would feel no great inclination for running about , dancing , or eating . Yet a crane - fly ( Tipula ) will leave half its legs in the hands of an unlucky boy who has endeavoured ...
... leg , or were a sword or spear run through his body , he would feel no great inclination for running about , dancing , or eating . Yet a crane - fly ( Tipula ) will leave half its legs in the hands of an unlucky boy who has endeavoured ...
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... legs , greedily devouring leaves with two jaws , and seeing by means of twelve eyes so minute as to be nearly imperceptible without the aid of a micro- scope . You now view it furnished with wings capable of rapid and extensive flights ...
... legs , greedily devouring leaves with two jaws , and seeing by means of twelve eyes so minute as to be nearly imperceptible without the aid of a micro- scope . You now view it furnished with wings capable of rapid and extensive flights ...
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Acari Acarus amongst animal ant-lion ants Aphides appear attack bees beetle birds body Bombyx butterfly called caterpillar cause Cecidomyia cells Coccus cockchafer Coleoptera colour combs common composed construction covered creatures Curculio deposited destroy devour Diptera earth eggs employed Entomology Estrus feed feet female flies flowers former furnished galls Geer genus grain grubs habitations head Hist hole honey Huber Hymenoptera Ichneumon inch inhabitants injury insects kind labour larva larvæ Latr Latreille leaf leaves legs Lepidoptera letter Linn Linné locusts maggots mandibles moth Mouffet nature nest object observed occasion oviposit perfect Phthiriasis plants PLATE prey probably produced Ptinus pupa quadrupeds ravages Reaum Reaumur resembling scarcely seems side silk similar singular Sir Joseph Banks skin sometimes species spider sting substance swarms threads Tinea tion Trans trees tribe various vegetable wasps whole wings wood young
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Page 219 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Page 220 - The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining...
Page 390 - An idle summer life in fortune's shine , A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till , blown away by death , oblivion...
Page 219 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 220 - But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Page 219 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 377 - ... forefeet on the table on which the comb stood, and so with their hind feet kept the comb from falling. When these were weary others took their places. In this constrained and painful posture, fresh bees relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days : at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with.
Page 153 - As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard, all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly about the plain, till they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.
Page 216 - The column they composed, my friend was informed, extended five hundred miles; and so compact was it, when on the wing, that, like an eclipse, it completely hid the sun, so that no shadow was cast by any object, and some lofty tombs distant from his residence not more than two hundred yards were rendered quite invisible.
Page 174 - ... and, what is most remarkable and without parallel, the sexual intercourse of one original pair serves for all the generations which proceed from the female for a whole succeeding year.