Silver-shell; or, The adventures of an oyster1857 |
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... microscope throws new light on what was previously known , and brings into full view so much that was but recently entirely concealed . Gratefully do we acknowledge our obligations to the illustrious men who have so energetically ...
... microscope throws new light on what was previously known , and brings into full view so much that was but recently entirely concealed . Gratefully do we acknowledge our obligations to the illustrious men who have so energetically ...
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... MICROSCOPE - THE INFANT OYSTER AND ITS FIRST NUTRIMENT - ITS ATTACHMENT TO THE ROCK . Ir is a morning in spring ; and , leaving for other times the buildings of the Norman coast , with its various other objects of interest , to the ...
... MICROSCOPE - THE INFANT OYSTER AND ITS FIRST NUTRIMENT - ITS ATTACHMENT TO THE ROCK . Ir is a morning in spring ; and , leaving for other times the buildings of the Norman coast , with its various other objects of interest , to the ...
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... microscope , " I saw , " he says , " that all that imagined slime was nothing but young oysters ; and , though afterwards twenty - five oysters were opened in my presence , yet I could not find one more in which such a 8 SILVER - SHELL :
... microscope , " I saw , " he says , " that all that imagined slime was nothing but young oysters ; and , though afterwards twenty - five oysters were opened in my presence , yet I could not find one more in which such a 8 SILVER - SHELL :
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... microscope . Between the gill - plates there are tubes , not like those with which we are familiar , as pipes of lead or clay , each consisting of one substance . The walls of the tubes , so to speak , are a regular net - work ...
... microscope . Between the gill - plates there are tubes , not like those with which we are familiar , as pipes of lead or clay , each consisting of one substance . The walls of the tubes , so to speak , are a regular net - work ...
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... microscope . This instrument will show the cilia forming several rows , beating and lashing the water , and producing in it an infinity of currents . Well might old Leeuwenhoeck exclaim , as he looked through his microscope at the beard ...
... microscope . This instrument will show the cilia forming several rows , beating and lashing the water , and producing in it an infinity of currents . Well might old Leeuwenhoeck exclaim , as he looked through his microscope at the beard ...
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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...