An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 - Entomology |
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... earth , now horrid with mis - shapen rocks , ridges , and precipices— now swelling into hills and mountains , and now sinking into valleys , glens , and cavesf ; while not a few are co- vered with branching spines , which fancy may form ...
... earth , now horrid with mis - shapen rocks , ridges , and precipices— now swelling into hills and mountains , and now sinking into valleys , glens , and cavesf ; while not a few are co- vered with branching spines , which fancy may form ...
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... earth , or the undulations of their waters : many are veined like beautiful marbles ; others have the semblance of a robe of the finest net - work thrown over them ; some she blazons with heraldic insignia , giving them to bear in ...
... earth , or the undulations of their waters : many are veined like beautiful marbles ; others have the semblance of a robe of the finest net - work thrown over them ; some she blazons with heraldic insignia , giving them to bear in ...
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... earth into artificial stone , a very happy discovery ; yet a little bee had practised this art , using indeed a different process , on a small scale , and the white ants on a large one , ever since the world began . Man thinks that he ...
... earth into artificial stone , a very happy discovery ; yet a little bee had practised this art , using indeed a different process , on a small scale , and the white ants on a large one , ever since the world began . Man thinks that he ...
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... earth , for we are told that he gave a name to every living creature " , amongst which insects must be included ; and to give an appropriate name to an object necessarily requires some knowledge of its distinguishing properties . Indeed ...
... earth , for we are told that he gave a name to every living creature " , amongst which insects must be included ; and to give an appropriate name to an object necessarily requires some knowledge of its distinguishing properties . Indeed ...
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... earth , and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture , contracted itself within this covering into a body without external mouth or limbs , and resembling more than any thing else an Egyptian mummy ; and which , lastly ...
... earth , and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture , contracted itself within this covering into a body without external mouth or limbs , and resembling more than any thing else an Egyptian mummy ; and which , lastly ...
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects ... William Kirby,William Spence No preview available - 2015 |
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Acari Acarus amongst animals ant-lion ants Aphides appear attack bees beetle birds body Bombyx butterfly called caterpillar cause Cecidomyia cells Coccus Coleoptera colour combs common composed construction covered creatures deposited described 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 Musca nature nest object observed occasion oviposit perfect Phthiriasis plants PLATE prey probably produced 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 vegetable wasps whole wings wood young
Popular passages
Page 222 - 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 424 - The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Page 223 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Page 56 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 223 - They shall run like mighty men ; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks, neither shall one thrust another.
Page 223 - 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 222 - 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 313 - But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy. And now, we must imagine first, The elves present, to quench his thirst, A pure seed-pearl of infant dew, Brought and...
Page 223 - 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 176 - ... 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.