Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick: To which is Added the Calendar of Flora

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J. Dodsley, 1775 - 391 páginas
 

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Página 122 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which nature's self would rue.
Página 122 - Order bereft of thought, uncaus'd effects, Fate freely acting, and unerring Chance. WHERE meanless matter to a chaos sinks, Or something lower still, for without Thee It crumbles into atoms void of force, Void of resistance — it eludes our thought. WHERE laws eternal...
Página 162 - They picked out some chosen companions, who might assist them in describing and painting the objects they should meet with. At length they arrived at the moon, and found a palace there well fitted up for their reception. The next day, being very much fatigued with their journey, they kept quiet at home till noon; and being...
Página 103 - Our aquatic birds (continues he) are forced by necessity to fly toward the south every autumn, before the water is frozen. Thus we know, that the lakes of Poland and Lithuania are filled with swans and geese every autumn, at which time they go in great flocks, along many rivers, as far as the Euxine Sea.
Página 93 - ... leaves something for the other, as the mouths of all are not equally adapted to lay hold of the grass ; by which means there is sufficient food for all. To this may be referred an economical experiment well known to the Dutch, that when eight cows have been in a pasture, and can no longer get nourishment, two horses will do very well there for some days, and when nothing is left for the horses...
Página 164 - ... old age, in •which, after having made their fortunes, they are overwhelmed with lawfuits, and proceedings relating to their eftates. Thus it frequently happens that men never confider to what end they were deftined, and why they were brought into the world.
Página 326 - certain mixture of all forts of rubbifh, which muft " neceffarily happen ; if he chances to have a large " proportion of good feeds, it is not unlikely, but that " what he intends for dry land may come from moid...
Página 132 - ... this microcofm, the heart. The kibes that happen to our hands and feet, fo common in the northern parts of Sweden, prove this. In Lapland you will never...
Página vii - To him another fucceeds, and thus by degrees, till at laft one of a fuperior genius comes, who laying all that has been done before his time together, brings on a new face of things, improves, adorns, exalts human fociety.
Página 95 - At lad being taken down, they let loóle a dog on it, which after a little while the floth feized with his feet, and held him four days, till he died of hunger. This was taken from the mouth of the father. They add (continues Kircher), that this creature makes no noife but at night, but that very extraordinary. For by interruptions, that...

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