The honey bee [by T. James].J. Murray, 1852 - 99 oldal |
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8. oldal
... living by the sweat of others ' brows . He worketh not at all either at home or abroad , and yet spendeth as much as two labourers : you shall never find his maw without a good drop of the purest nectar . In the heat of the day he ...
... living by the sweat of others ' brows . He worketh not at all either at home or abroad , and yet spendeth as much as two labourers : you shall never find his maw without a good drop of the purest nectar . In the heat of the day he ...
30. oldal
... living in the midst of such an universal medicine , should have ever died . 66 Honey cutteth and casteth up flegmatic matter , and therefore sharpeneth the stomachs of them which by reason thereof have little appetite : it purgeth those ...
... living in the midst of such an universal medicine , should have ever died . 66 Honey cutteth and casteth up flegmatic matter , and therefore sharpeneth the stomachs of them which by reason thereof have little appetite : it purgeth those ...
31. oldal
... living mummy like Marmion's Constance , " alive within the tomb " ( for a snail , though excluded from air , would not die ) , so that he who had heretofore carried his own house was now made his own monument . As one of the indirect ...
... living mummy like Marmion's Constance , " alive within the tomb " ( for a snail , though excluded from air , would not die ) , so that he who had heretofore carried his own house was now made his own monument . As one of the indirect ...
51. oldal
... the unlearned neglect even points like these ! -the mode of thinking must run in the same current as that of the people whom we wish to instruct and please , so that nothing short of · being one of them , or living constantly among them E ...
... the unlearned neglect even points like these ! -the mode of thinking must run in the same current as that of the people whom we wish to instruct and please , so that nothing short of · being one of them , or living constantly among them E ...
52. oldal
Thomas James. being one of them , or living constantly among them , " In joy and in sorrow , through praise and through blame , ” being conversant not only with their afflictions and enjoyments , and ordinary life , but even with their ...
Thomas James. being one of them , or living constantly among them , " In joy and in sorrow , through praise and through blame , ” being conversant not only with their afflictions and enjoyments , and ordinary life , but even with their ...
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97. oldal - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
94. oldal - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
7. oldal - A bee amongst the flowers in spring, is one of the most cheerful objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased...
17. oldal - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
84. oldal - It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived from time to time, with full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum.
82. oldal - ... bee. We had not been long in the camp, when a party set out in quest of a bee-tree ; and being curious to witness the sport, I gladly accepted an invitation to accompany them. The party was headed by a veteran...
83. oldal - Even a loud crack which announced the disrupture of the trunk, failed to divert their attention from the intense pursuit of gain ; at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a wisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees.
82. oldal - ... and without a hat, straddled along at his heels, with a long rifle on his shoulder. To these succeeded half a dozen others, some with axes and some with rifles, for no one stirs far from the camp without his firearms, so as to be ready either for wild deer or wild Indian.
83. oldal - The latter, however, made no attack and sought no revenge ; they seemed stupefied by the catastrophe and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about the ruins without offering us any molestation. Every one of the party now fell to, with spoon and hunting-knife, to scoop out the flakes of honey-comb with which the hollow trunk was stored.
96. oldal - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad...