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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... labour of wading , often to glean scarcely more than a single fact - the numerous anatomical and technological investigations which it has called for - and the long correspondence , almost as bulky as the entire work , unavoidably ...
... labour of wading , often to glean scarcely more than a single fact - the numerous anatomical and technological investigations which it has called for - and the long correspondence , almost as bulky as the entire work , unavoidably ...
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... labour of the leisure hours of six years ill bestowed . And here it may be proper to observe , that one of their first and favourite objects has been to di- rect the attention of their readers " from nature up to nature's God . " For ...
... labour of the leisure hours of six years ill bestowed . And here it may be proper to observe , that one of their first and favourite objects has been to di- rect the attention of their readers " from nature up to nature's God . " For ...
Page xix
... labours , it may be jointly awarded . All that they think necessary to state is , that the composition of each of the dif- ferent departments of the work has been , as * See Harris's Aurelian under Papilio Cinxia nearly as possible ...
... labours , it may be jointly awarded . All that they think necessary to state is , that the composition of each of the dif- ferent departments of the work has been , as * See Harris's Aurelian under Papilio Cinxia nearly as possible ...
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... labours of man for many ages to bring them to their full extent , what shall we say to the white ants , which require only a few months to build a metropolis capable of containing an infinitely greater number of inhabitants than even ...
... labours of man for many ages to bring them to their full extent , what shall we say to the white ants , which require only a few months to build a metropolis capable of containing an infinitely greater number of inhabitants than even ...
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... labour and attention you bestow upon them . 1 But a more important species of instruction than any hitherto enumerated may be derived from entomologi- cal pursuits . If we attend to the history and manners of insects , they will furnish ...
... labour and attention you bestow upon them . 1 But a more important species of instruction than any hitherto enumerated may be derived from entomologi- cal pursuits . If we attend to the history and manners of insects , they will furnish ...
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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
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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.