The honey bee [by T. James].1852 |
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20. oldal
... produce many more ! But there are rush - bearing commons , and ragged banks of gravel , and untractable clay - lands , and hassocky nooks , enough and to spare , the fit subjects for new plantations , without encroaching upon our ...
... produce many more ! But there are rush - bearing commons , and ragged banks of gravel , and untractable clay - lands , and hassocky nooks , enough and to spare , the fit subjects for new plantations , without encroaching upon our ...
22. oldal
... produce which is afforded by the surrounding country . After travelling three months in this manner , the bees , having culled the perfumes of the orange - flowers of the Said , the essence of roses of the Faiocum , the treasures of the ...
... produce which is afforded by the surrounding country . After travelling three months in this manner , the bees , having culled the perfumes of the orange - flowers of the Said , the essence of roses of the Faiocum , the treasures of the ...
26. oldal
... produces a land of milk and honey to the ants , who follow them wherever they appear , and actually herd them like cows and milk them ! * * What follows is from the delightful ' Introduction to Entomo- logy , ' by Kirby and Spence ...
... produces a land of milk and honey to the ants , who follow them wherever they appear , and actually herd them like cows and milk them ! * * What follows is from the delightful ' Introduction to Entomo- logy , ' by Kirby and Spence ...
27. oldal
... produced upon the Ten Thousand by the honey in the neighbourhood of Trebizond . The soldiers suffered in proportion to the quantity they had eaten some seemed drunken , some mad , and some all but died . ( Anab . iv . 8. ) This quality ...
... produced upon the Ten Thousand by the honey in the neighbourhood of Trebizond . The soldiers suffered in proportion to the quantity they had eaten some seemed drunken , some mad , and some all but died . ( Anab . iv . 8. ) This quality ...
41. oldal
... produce . Before entering further on the varieties of hives , we must premise for the uninitiated that bees almost invariably begin building their comb from the top , continuing it down as far as room allows them , and finishing it off ...
... produce . Before entering further on the varieties of hives , we must premise for the uninitiated that bees almost invariably begin building their comb from the top , continuing it down as far as room allows them , and finishing it off ...
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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...