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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... stone . † A great deal of this animalculę stone , called hone , is found in the mountains of Hungary and Turkey . The earth that forms these mountains was once the bottom of a lake ; but being raised up by the force of volcanic fires ...
... stone . † A great deal of this animalculę stone , called hone , is found in the mountains of Hungary and Turkey . The earth that forms these mountains was once the bottom of a lake ; but being raised up by the force of volcanic fires ...
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... stone . The stone - building polypes live in the sea , but the hydra is a fresh water gentleman ; and it is not unlikely that he may be a near neighbour of yours , for he lives in weedy ponds , and in the slow moving waters of ditches ...
... stone . The stone - building polypes live in the sea , but the hydra is a fresh water gentleman ; and it is not unlikely that he may be a near neighbour of yours , for he lives in weedy ponds , and in the slow moving waters of ditches ...
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... stones , and were fastened together with strong bitumen or pitch ; and so extensive were they , that men had to walk sixty miles to go round the city ; and so wide were the walls , that nine carriages could stand in a row on their tops ...
... stones , and were fastened together with strong bitumen or pitch ; and so extensive were they , that men had to walk sixty miles to go round the city ; and so wide were the walls , that nine carriages could stand in a row on their tops ...
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... stone or brick walls , for so long as the polypes are in their tubes , little vessels run out of their bodies into the chalk walls , just as little vessels run out of our flesh into the bones , and this makes both body and wall one live ...
... stone or brick walls , for so long as the polypes are in their tubes , little vessels run out of their bodies into the chalk walls , just as little vessels run out of our flesh into the bones , and this makes both body and wall one live ...
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... stone they deposit under it is left smooth . The sea is every where supplied with some kind of coral polypes , but it is most abundantly filled with them in hot parts , because dead matter remaining under the influence of a burning sun ...
... stone they deposit under it is left smooth . The sea is every where supplied with some kind of coral polypes , but it is most abundantly filled with them in hot parts , because dead matter remaining under the influence of a burning sun ...
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affectionately ammonite amongst animalcules antennę 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 257 - Buried in sorrow and in sin, At hell's dark door we lay ; But we arise, by grace divine, To see a heavenly day. 3 Salvation ! let the echo fly The spacious earth around ; While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.
Page 47 - Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing towards the day.
Page 46 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove ; Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Page 261 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Page 208 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
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.
Page 57 - Ah ! no ! till life itself depart, His name shall cheer and warm my heart ; And lisping this, from earth I'll rise, And join the chorus of the skies.
Page 59 - There, with a light and easy motion, The fan coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea, And life in rare and beautiful forms Is sporting amid those bowers of stone...
Page 61 - This little volume, designed to interest and instruct the Young in Natural History, has attained extensive popularity. It is used by the ROYAL CHILDREN, as well as in many a family circle, and in the Schools of the Poor.