| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIRST BEE. " The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...tomb, — an embalmed corpse in a crystal coffin, — alojig with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycida3, too — insects... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...both of the land and water, beetles, and two-winged flies. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...gem-like tomb — an embalmed corpse in a crystal cofiin — along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. There is exquisite poetry in Wordsworth's... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 528 pages
...butterflies, decided trace of the flower-sucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombyeidse too, — insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 520 pages
...butterflies, decided trace of the flowersucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycidae too, — insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 540 pages
...butterflies, decided trace of the flower-sucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...hermetically in its gemlike tomb, — an embalmed corp^3 in a crystal coffin, — along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 340 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIBST BEE. *' The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycidae too,— insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce visible... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 368 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIRST BEE. " The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and trees. The first of the Bombycidse, too — insects that may be seen suspended over flowers by the scarce... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - 338 pages
...of God. He stands on this earth, but with upright face he looks upward to heaven. THE FIRST BEE. " The first bee makes its appearance in the amber of...the Eocene, locked up hermetically in its gem-like tomb,—an embalmed corpse in a crystal coffin,—along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 650 pages
...butterflies, decided traces of the flower-sucking insects. Not, however, until we enter into the great Tertiary division do these become numerous. The first...the Eocene, locked up hermetically in its gem-like tomb,—an embalmed corpse in a crystal coffin,—along with fragments of flower-bearing herbs and... | |
| 1861 - 292 pages
...long before man was brought into existence; for, according to Hugh Miller, (Testimong of the Rocks,) " the first bee makes its appearance in the amber of the Eocene" — the period which Geologists regard as the very dawn of the existing state of things. g^" Please... | |
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