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" Swarms of newborn flies are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy and the exultation which they feel in their lately... "
Suggestive Hints Towards Improved Secular Instruction: Making it Bear Upon ... - Page 157
by Richard Dawes - 1849 - 184 pages
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 1-2; Volume 12

1867 - 964 pages
...decline by your negligence : their fruits will reward you in proportion to your labour. A bee among the flowers in spring is one of the most cheerful objects that con bo looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoymeut : so busy and so pleased : yet it is only...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...compeer does of honey. 'A bee among the flowers in spring,' says Paley, ' is one of the cheerfulest objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased.' The Drone may be known by the noise he makes. Hence his name. He has been the butt of all who have...
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A Grammar of Moral Philosophy, and Natural Theology: With a Summary of the ...

J. W. Baker - 1817 - 262 pages
...my view. Swarmi of new-horn Jlies are trying their pinions in the air. A bee, amongst flowers in the spring, is one of the most cheerful objects that can be looked upon. (3 ) The whole winged insect tribe are equally intent upon their proper employments, and perhaps equally...
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History ..., Volume 1

William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pages
...intermission in collecting farina for its young or honey for its associates,) is one f the cheerfullest objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased*.1' • Gleditsch Physic. But. Omm. Abkandt. iii. 200-237. b Natural Theology, 497. Of the...
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Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

William Paley - 1819 - 302 pages
...continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they frel in their lately discovered faculties.— A bee amongst the flowers in spring, is one of the cheerfullest objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment; so busy, and so...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

1832 - 614 pages
...is speaking of. " A bee among the flowers in spring," says Dr. Paley, " is one of the cheerfullest objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment, so busy and so pleased? TO A FLOWER BROUGHT FROM THE FIELD OF GRUTLI.* If, by the wood-fire's blaze. When Winter-stars gleam...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they feel...A bee amongst the flowers in spring, is one of the cheerfullest objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment ; so busy, and so...
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History ..., Volume 1

William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pages
...intermission in collecting farina for its young or honey for its associates,) is one of the cheerfullest objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased "." Of the sources of exquisite gratification which every rural walk will open to you, while witnessing...
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Views of the Creation

1822 - 192 pages
...sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their continual change of place, apparently without use or purpose, testify their joy and the exultation which they feel in their lately discovered facultie*. ^ A bee amongst the flowers Jjgc'tf that 5*oDe of the most cheer.<p,'fe " pe,rf to can be...
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A Grammar of Composition: Including a Practical Review of the Principles of ...

William Russell - 1823 - 164 pages
...their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they feel...looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment: it is always busy, and always pleased ; yet it is only a specimen of insect life, with which, by reason...
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