The Naturalist's Pocket-book: Or Tourist's Companion, Being a Brief Introduction to the Different Branches of Natural History with Approved Methods for Collecting and Preserving the Various Production of Nature |
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Page 1 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Page 332 - The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 58 - Art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
Page 1 - Or foodfull substance; not the labouring steed, The herd, and flock that feed us; not the mine That yields us stores for elegance and use, The sea that loads our table, and conveys The wanderer man from clime to clime, with all Those rolling spheres, that from on high shed down Their kindly influence; not these alone, Which strike...
Page 87 - ... interior, it is said, consists of three divisions ; the first is occupied by the male, the second by the female, the third by the young. In the first apartment, where the male keeps watch while the female is hatching, a little clay is placed on one side, and on the top of this a glowworm, which affords its...
Page 332 - ... would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For they are all, — the meanest things that are, — As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom...
Page 87 - ... plants or dry grass, and suspends it by a kind of cord, nearly half an ell long, from the end of a slender branch of a tree, that it may be inaccessible to snakes, and...
Page 256 - ... the water, with some of their tentacula extended at their sides, while two arms that are furnished with membranaceous appendages serve the office of sails. These animals raise themselves to the surface of the sea, by ejecting the sea-water from their shells; and on the approach of danger, they draw in their arms, and with them a quantity of water, which occasions them to sink immediately. By possessing this power, they are but rarely taken perfect, as the instant they are disturbed, they disappear....
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Page 109 - The tertials, as usual in this tribe, are very long, reaching nearly to the tips of the primaries ; exterior toe joined by a membrane to the middle one, as far as the first joint.