A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Being a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation, Volume 2Thomas Tegg and Son, 1836 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abdomen action appear articulated beautiful bees birds bivalve body bones caterpillars character claws climates coleoptera colour common consists countries covering crab creation creatures crust crustacea curious deposited destruction earth economy eggs elytra external extremity feed feet females fishes flowers furnished germ grand division greater number growth habits hatched head hive honey inhabit insects instance invertebrated animals joints kind knowledge labium labour land larva larvæ latitudes legs length lepidoptera living lobster male mals mandibles manner matter maxillæ means mollusca motion mouth muscles nature observation operculum organs oviparous ovipositor oyster pearl perform plants portion prey produced proportion pupa purpose queen bee race remarkable resemblance season shell singular skin sometimes sort species spider structure substance sucker surface tail thorax threads timber tion trees tropical Tyrian purple vast number vegetable vertebrated whole wings winter young
Popular passages
Page 297 - A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Page 253 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 119 - ... and then slipping its tail from its old habitation, to try on -the new. .This also is found to be inconvenient, and it quickly returns to its old shell again. In this manner it frequently changes, till at last it finds one light, roomy, and commodious; to this it adheres, though* the shell be sometimes so large as to hide the body of the animal, claws and all...
Page 122 - In casting their shells, it is hard to conceive how the lobsters are able to draw the flesh of their large claws out, leaving the shells entire, and attached to the shell of their body, in which state they are constantly found.
Page 126 - These are often obliged to halt for want of rain, and go into the most convenient encampment till the weather changes. The main body of the army is composed of females, which never leave the mountains till the rain is set in for some time...
Page 125 - These animals live not only in a kind of orderly society in their retreats in the mountains, but regularly once a year march down to the sea-side in a body of some millions at a time. As they multiply in great numbers, they choose the...
Page 9 - No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him ; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Page 125 - May to begin their expedition ; and then sally out by thousands from the stumps of hollow trees, from the clefts of rocks, and from the holes which they dig for themselves under the surface of the earth. At that time the whole ground is covered with this band of adventurers; there is no setting down one's foot without treading upon them.
Page 313 - Because she is to dig her cell in the earth, her paws serve for a pick-axe and spade. Her eye is sunk deep into its socket, that it may not be hurt by her rugged situation. And as it needs very little light, she has no reason to complain of her dark abode. So that her subterranean habitation, which some might call a dungeon, yields her all the safety of a fortified castle, and all the delights of a decorated grot. " Even the spider, though abhorred by man, is the care of allsustaining Heaven. She...
Page 119 - ... wave, still, however, dragging its old incommodious habitation at its tail, unwilling to part with one shell, even though a troublesome appendage, till it can find one more convenient.