The observing eye; or, Letters to children on the three lowest divisions of animal life, by the author of 'Passover feasts and Scripture sacrifices'.1851 |
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... four excellent divisions , which I think we cannot do better than adopt . In the first division or group of animals , he put all those which have back - bones , and called this the VERTEBRATED division ; in it are men , beasts , birds ...
... four excellent divisions , which I think we cannot do better than adopt . In the first division or group of animals , he put all those which have back - bones , and called this the VERTEBRATED division ; in it are men , beasts , birds ...
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... four or five pieces , and it hurts it no more than cutting our hair into four or five parts ; this is because God has seen it right to make the jelly tube of a polype without any nerve of feeling in it . But its Creator has given the ...
... four or five pieces , and it hurts it no more than cutting our hair into four or five parts ; this is because God has seen it right to make the jelly tube of a polype without any nerve of feeling in it . But its Creator has given the ...
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... four or five days a new mouth , and fresh tentacula thrown out . Even a single tentaculum , when it was cut off , soon made a perfect hydra ; at one end a mouth sprouted out , and at the other end a foot appeared . From this ...
... four or five days a new mouth , and fresh tentacula thrown out . Even a single tentaculum , when it was cut off , soon made a perfect hydra ; at one end a mouth sprouted out , and at the other end a foot appeared . From this ...
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... four hundred yards , because deeper waters are too cold and too dark for them ; therefore God teaches the little gemmule always to begin its house on some rock that lies hidden at a moderate depth under the water ; and they cannot live ...
... four hundred yards , because deeper waters are too cold and too dark for them ; therefore God teaches the little gemmule always to begin its house on some rock that lies hidden at a moderate depth under the water ; and they cannot live ...
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... four spikes set up round each cell . Thirty - six thousand little cells of this kind of polype have been counted on a space of ten square inches , all containing inhabitants actively engaged in seiz- ing food , and throwing out their ...
... four spikes set up round each cell . Thirty - six thousand little cells of this kind of polype have been counted on a space of ten square inches , all containing inhabitants actively engaged in seiz- ing food , and throwing out their ...
Common terms and phrases
affectionately ammonite amongst animalcules antennæ arms ARTICULATA articulated animals beautiful beetles butterflies called cells chalk cilia claws colours coral coralline cord covered crabs creatures creep crustacean Cuvier DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS delicate draw earth worm echinus edges eggs encrinites fastened feet fibres flesh flies floating fluid Flustra gemmule gills grow habits hard head hermit crab horny hydra hydroid insects jelly juices kind legs letter lime little holes live lobster look madrepore magnified mantle molluscous animals mouth move multivalve muscles naturalists OBSERVING EYE ocean oyster piece placed polypes radiated animals rays rings rocks round scorpion sea anemone sea mat sea nettles sea pen seen shape shell side silk silken siphuncle skin slug soft bodies sometimes soon spider spinnerets sponge star fish stomach substance sucker tentacula threads tough tube vast number vegetables walls whilst wings wonderful zoophytes
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Page 48 - Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a Hand invisible was rearing A new creation in the secret deep. Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them ; Hence, what omnipotence alone could do, Worms did.
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