Life in the Insect World: Or, Conversations Upon Insects Between an Aunt and Her NiecesLindsay & Blakiston, 1844 - 241 עמודים "First and only edition of this illustrated Victorian guide to insects for children, sympathetically rebound in the style of early nineteenth-century vernacular cloth bindings. Quaker entomologist Mary Townsend structures the book as a friendly conversation between an aunt and her young nieces, extended over twenty evenings, covering insects from the familiar ant, bee, and cricket to the more spectacular butterflies and fireflies: 'the ingenious little insects which are almost every where to be found ... too apt to be overlooked, or carelessly, and often cruelly, trodden under foot.' Making frequent reference to the microscope, the narrator emphasizes the daily wonders of creation: 'instead of feeling inclined to pass by any object because it is common, you should, on that very account, be disposed to examine it more closely.'" -- Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2018. |
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Life in the Insect World: Or, Conversations Upon Insects Between an Aunt and ... אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2019 |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 108 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
עמוד 83 - That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch ; Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it scratches the post.
עמוד 116 - Even these of them ye may eat ; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
עמוד 84 - Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it scratches the post. But a kettle of scalding hot water injected Infallibly cures the timber affected : The omen is broken, the danger is over ; The maggot will die, and the sick will recover.
עמוד 80 - She'd no disquiet from aught beside'; And lived of a meekness and peace possessed', Which these debar from the human breast. She only wished, for the harsh abuse', To find some way to become of use' To the haughty daughter of lordly man'; And thus did she lay a noble plan...
עמוד 39 - Him who taught us to forgive as we hope to be forgiven ; to love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them that despitefully use us and persecute us...
עמוד 119 - The whole that were brought to the tent at this time were cooked while alive, as indeed they always are, for a dead locust is never cooked. The manner of cooking is by digging a deep hole in the ground, building a fire at the bottom, as before described, and filling it up with wood. After it is heated as hot as is possible, the coals and embers are taken out, and they prepare to fill the cavity with the locusts confined in a large bag. A sufficient number of the natives hold the bag perpendicularly...
עמוד 21 - Kirby, to announce to the world the discovery of an animal, which, for the first five years of its life, existed in the form of a serpent ; which then, penetrating into the earth, and weaving a shroud of pure silk of the finest texture, contracted itself, within this covering, into a body without external mouth or limbs, and resembling, more than anything else, an Egyptian mummy; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state, without food and without motion, for three years longer, should, at...
עמוד 80 - I'll leave behind, as a farewell boon, To the proud young princess, my whole cocoon, To be reeled and wove to a shining lace And hung in a veil o'er her scornful face! And when she can calmly draw her breath Through the very threads that have caused my death; When she finds, at length, she has nerves so firm As to wear the shroud of a crawling worm, May she bear in mind, that she walks with pride In the winding-sheet where the silk-worm died!"i3 Wool ool was probably the last of the major fibers...
עמוד 215 - The attachment of this affectionate mother is not confined to her eggs. After the young spiders are hatched, they make their way out of the bag by an orifice, which she is careful to open for them, and without which they could never...