The Assistant of Education: Religious and Literary, Intended for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 7Baker and Fletcher, 1826 |
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... papa ? I should never have thought of that . I did not know that insects had any other means of defence than their stings . PAPA . They have many more than you would have any idea of , I dare say . This emitting scents and fluids ...
... papa ? I should never have thought of that . I did not know that insects had any other means of defence than their stings . PAPA . They have many more than you would have any idea of , I dare say . This emitting scents and fluids ...
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... papa : you know they are very interesting little creatures to me . PAPA . They are very interesting , I suppose , even in their most repulsive forms . You turned with disgust , I recollect , from the Skunk which we saw at Exeter Change ...
... papa : you know they are very interesting little creatures to me . PAPA . They are very interesting , I suppose , even in their most repulsive forms . You turned with disgust , I recollect , from the Skunk which we saw at Exeter Change ...
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... papa , these are what you call passive means of defence . PAPA . Yes . Some of their active ones would amuse you much : particularly the deceptions they are known to practise . ANNA . How is it possible , papa , for such little crea ...
... papa , these are what you call passive means of defence . PAPA . Yes . Some of their active ones would amuse you much : particularly the deceptions they are known to practise . ANNA . How is it possible , papa , for such little crea ...
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... PAPA . - I by no means suppose that insects feel pain as acutely as more organized animals do : I think indeed that we have sufficient proof that they do not : for an insect impaled upon a pin , will often devour its prey with as much ...
... PAPA . - I by no means suppose that insects feel pain as acutely as more organized animals do : I think indeed that we have sufficient proof that they do not : for an insect impaled upon a pin , will often devour its prey with as much ...
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... PAPA . Many of them have other and more honour- able means of defence . The wasps and bees , for ex⚫ ample , are not deficient in the same contrivance which we ourselves should employ to ward off an enemy , -that of placing sentinels ...
... PAPA . Many of them have other and more honour- able means of defence . The wasps and bees , for ex⚫ ample , are not deficient in the same contrivance which we ourselves should employ to ward off an enemy , -that of placing sentinels ...
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