Silver-shell; or, The adventures of an oyster1857 |
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... employed this instru- ment in the past , and heartily would we encourage them in their present and future labours . In offering , therefore , the Biography of an Oyster , we say with George Wither , when he pre- sented his book to his ...
... employed this instru- ment in the past , and heartily would we encourage them in their present and future labours . In offering , therefore , the Biography of an Oyster , we say with George Wither , when he pre- sented his book to his ...
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... employed as bait or food for any tenants of the waters . Curious , then , is such a mass ; but far more curious still will it appear if a portion of it be taken and minutely examined . The earliest account we have of such inspection is ...
... employed as bait or food for any tenants of the waters . Curious , then , is such a mass ; but far more curious still will it appear if a portion of it be taken and minutely examined . The earliest account we have of such inspection is ...
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... employed to give strength to the works of man . At a long bridge over the Towridge river , in the county of Devon , the tide flows so rapidly that mortar , failing to keep it in repair , the interstices are filled with mussels , whose ...
... employed to give strength to the works of man . At a long bridge over the Towridge river , in the county of Devon , the tide flows so rapidly that mortar , failing to keep it in repair , the interstices are filled with mussels , whose ...
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... employed to effect the double purpose of renewing the respired fluid , and feeding the helpless inhabitants of these shells ! Every filament of the branchial fringe , examined under a powerful microscope , is found to be covered with ...
... employed to effect the double purpose of renewing the respired fluid , and feeding the helpless inhabitants of these shells ! Every filament of the branchial fringe , examined under a powerful microscope , is found to be covered with ...
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... employed to wash off the varnish , the device which had been traced appears in relief . When it is intended that this should be cut out , this can be done with a fine frame - saw , or a knife - edged tool . Should several devices be ...
... employed to wash off the varnish , the device which had been traced appears in relief . When it is intended that this should be cut out , this can be done with a fine frame - saw , or a knife - edged tool . Should several devices be ...
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Página 133 - The one led me to see a system in every star. The other leads me to see a world in every atom.
Página 102 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 9 - In human works, though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too some other use.
Página 133 - ... in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Página 103 - Him, who maketh the morning and the evening to rejoice over our heads ; who " openeth his hand, and satisfieth the desire of every living thing.
Página 20 - But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 62 - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observ'd his courtship to the common people:— How he did seem to dive into their hearts...
Página 125 - 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.
Página 109 - ... and proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him or the sight of the bucket too terrific I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.
Página 102 - Thus all lower natures find their highest good in semblances and seekings of that which is higher and better. All things strive to ascend, and ascend in their striving. And shall man alone stoop? Shall his pursuits and desires, the reflections of his inward life, be like the reflected image of a tree on the edge of a pool, that grows downward, and seeks a mock heaven in the unstable element beneath it, in...