The British Essayists;: GuardianJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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Сторінка 166
... holes in the day - time , and expose to the sun the corn , which they keep under ground in the night . Those who have seen ant - hillocks , have easily per- ceived those small heaps of corn about their nests . What surprised me at first ...
... holes in the day - time , and expose to the sun the corn , which they keep under ground in the night . Those who have seen ant - hillocks , have easily per- ceived those small heaps of corn about their nests . What surprised me at first ...
Сторінка 167
... hole in every ant's nest , about half an inch deep , and then it goes down sloping into a place where they have their magazine , which I take to be a different place from that where they rest and eat . For it is highly improbable that ...
... hole in every ant's nest , about half an inch deep , and then it goes down sloping into a place where they have their magazine , which I take to be a different place from that where they rest and eat . For it is highly improbable that ...
Сторінка 168
... holes , and place them round to heat them in the sun . Every ant brings a small particle of that earth in her ... hole . They lay their corn under ground upon that earth , and cover it with the same . They perform this work almost ...
... holes , and place them round to heat them in the sun . Every ant brings a small particle of that earth in her ... hole . They lay their corn under ground upon that earth , and cover it with the same . They perform this work almost ...
Сторінка 169
... hole , one of dry earth , and the other of corn ; and then they fetch out a remainder of dry earth , on which doubt- less their corn was laid up . Those insects never go about this work but when the weather is clear , and the sun very ...
... hole , one of dry earth , and the other of corn ; and then they fetch out a remainder of dry earth , on which doubt- less their corn was laid up . Those insects never go about this work but when the weather is clear , and the sun very ...
Сторінка 170
... holes . Though ants are very knowing , I do not take them to be conjurers ; and therefore they could not guess that I had put some corn in that room . I perceived for several days that they were very much perplexed , and went a great ...
... holes . Though ants are very knowing , I do not take them to be conjurers ; and therefore they could not guess that I had put some corn in that room . I perceived for several days that they were very much perplexed , and went a great ...
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Сторінка 231 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Сторінка 232 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Сторінка 232 - Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Сторінка 80 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Сторінка 233 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Сторінка 43 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Сторінка 182 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Сторінка 232 - She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Сторінка 49 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Сторінка 197 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.