The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art by Way of Dialogue, Volume 3

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W. Owen and the author, 1782
 

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Page 114 - Fear made her Devils, and weak Hope her Gods; Gods partial, changeful, passionate, unjust, Whose attributes were Rage, Revenge, or Lust; Such as the souls of cowards might conceive, And, form'd like tyrants, tyrants would believe.
Page 123 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Page 122 - A rdla cinerXa ) is about 3 feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds its nest in high trees, many being sometimes on one tree.
Page 26 - Lama. 491 holes, which were the orifices of about twenty cavities, made like sacs, placed between the two membranes which do compose the substance of this ventricle. The view of these...
Page 111 - How rich the Peacock ! what bright glories run From plume to plume, and vary in the sun ; He proudly spreads them to the golden ray, Gives all his colours, and adorns the day : With conscious state the spacious round displays, And slowly moves amid the waving blaze.
Page 228 - Each seed includes a plant: that plant, again, Has other seeds, which other plants contain : Those other plants have all their seeds; and those, More plants, again, successively inclose.
Page 126 - When, homeward from their wat'ry pastures borne, They sing, and Asia's lakes their notes return. Not one who heard their music from afar, Would think these troops an army...
Page 134 - Art- (z) do thefe poor untaught Creatures lay a parcel of rude and ugly. Sticks and Straws, Mofs and Dirt together, and form them into commodious Nefts! With what...
Page 36 - Each beast, each insect, happy in its own: Is Heav'n unkind to Man, and Man alone? Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not bless'd with all?

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