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... soon cease to exist ; and towards autumn the eggs would give birth to numerous minute whitish grubs . Between this period of hatching and the third autumn , the grubs increase greatly in size , and cast their skins three or four times ...
... soon cease to exist ; and towards autumn the eggs would give birth to numerous minute whitish grubs . Between this period of hatching and the third autumn , the grubs increase greatly in size , and cast their skins three or four times ...
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... soon consume all that their parents had sure to be males and females in equal numbers ; left . As soon as they are full grown they cease they hunt by scent only , the chase being mostly eating , and burrowing further in the earth become ...
... soon consume all that their parents had sure to be males and females in equal numbers ; left . As soon as they are full grown they cease they hunt by scent only , the chase being mostly eating , and burrowing further in the earth become ...
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... soon after they have deposited their eggs in suitable situations , with , in some cases , a supply of food to be ready for the young the moment they emerge from the egg . This is not , however , the case with all . A species of bug ...
... soon after they have deposited their eggs in suitable situations , with , in some cases , a supply of food to be ready for the young the moment they emerge from the egg . This is not , however , the case with all . A species of bug ...
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... soon after midsummer , visible for a considerable distance as he receded though the leaves had been literally covered from view . with them only a few days previously . White says : - At about three o'clock in the afternoon of this ...
... soon after midsummer , visible for a considerable distance as he receded though the leaves had been literally covered from view . with them only a few days previously . White says : - At about three o'clock in the afternoon of this ...
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... soon as they were excluded from the egg , and he found , that in the course of three months , nine genera- tions were successively produced in this way , al- though care was taken that no males should have access to the females ...
... soon as they were excluded from the egg , and he found , that in the course of three months , nine genera- tions were successively produced in this way , al- though care was taken that no males should have access to the females ...
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Página 304 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 396 - Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again! What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Página 245 - Thou hast the starry gems, the burning gold, Won from ten thousand royal argosies! Sweep o'er thy spoils, thou wild and wrathful main ! Earth claims not these again.
Página 363 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Página 259 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill : though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Página 252 - Alas ! my boy, thy gentle grasp is on me, The bright tears quiver in thy pleading eyes, And now fond thoughts arise, And silver cords again to earth have won me ; And like a vine thou claspest my full heart — How shall I hence depart?
Página 222 - His children were brought up like the children of the neighboring peasantry. His boys followed the plough ; and his girls went out to service. Study he found impossible ; for the advowson of his living would hardly have sold for a sum sufficient to purchase a good theological library ; and he might be considered as unusually lucky if he had ten or twelve dogeared volumes among the pots and pans on his shelves.
Página 410 - ... forgotten. His name at once calls up before us a slender and feeble frame, a lofty and ample forehead, a nose curved like the beak of an eagle, an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin, and deeply furrowed by sickness and by care. That pensive, severe, and solemn aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or a good-humoured man. But it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken,...
Página 252 - midst the silence of the stars I wake, And watch for thy dear sake. " And thou, will slumber's dewy cloud fall round thee, Without thy mother's hand to smooth thy bed ? Wilt thou not vainly spread Thine arms, when darkness as a veil hath wound thee, To fold my neck, and lift up, in thy fear, A cry which none shall hear?
Página 150 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray ; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.