Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence, 2. kötetElizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 794 oldal Describes the life cycle, habitat, and eating habits of the seven-spotted ladybug and similar beetles. |
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545. oldal - Thy Father has written for thee.' 'Come, wander with me,' she said, 'Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.' And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
781. oldal - In conclusion, he sketches the plan of these articles. " I hope in future articles to show, first, that, however broken the geological record may be, there is a complete sequence in many parts of it, from which the character of the succession may be ascertained ; secondly, that, since the most exquisitely delicate structures, as well as embryonic phases of growth of the most perishable nature, have been preserved from very early deposits, we have no right to infer the disappearance of types because...
567. oldal - That is good, that is good !" he repeated; but that is not all; go on ; and so for three long days he placed that fish before my eyes ; forbidding me to look at anything else, or to use any artificial aid. "Look, look, look," was his repeated injunction. This was the best entomological lesson I ever had — a lesson, whose influence has extended to the details of every subsequent study ; a legacy the professor has left to me, as he has left it to many others, of inestimable value, which we could...
672. oldal - From what I have seen of the deep-sea bottom, I am already led to infer that among the rocks forming the bulk of the stratified crust of our globe, from the oldest to the youngest formation, there are probably none which have been formed in very deep waters.
697. oldal - Hassler, brought me a ball of Gulf weed which he had just picked up, and which excited my curiosity to the utmost. It was a round mass of sargassum about the size of two fists, rolled up together. The whole consisted, to all appearance, of nothing but Gulf weed, the branches and leaves of which were, however, evidently knit together, and not merely balled into a roundish mass ; for, though some of the leaves and branches hung loose from the rest, it became at once visible...
546. oldal - At one end of the table sat Longfellow, florid, quiet, benignant, soft-voiced, a most agreeable rather than a brilliant talker, but a man upon whom it was always pleasant to look, — whose silence was better than many another man's conversation. At the other end of the table sat Agassiz, robust, sanguine, animated, full of talk, boy-like in his laughter.
545. oldal - Or tell a more marvellous tale. So she keeps him still a child, And will not let him go, Though at times his heart beats wild For the beautiful Pays de Vaud ; Though at times he hears in his dreams The Ranz des Vaches of old, And the rush of mountain streams From glaciers clear and cold ; And the mother at home says, " Hark ! For his voice I listen and yearn ; It is growing late and dark, And my boy does not return !
544. oldal - Vaud, A child in its cradle lay. And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying : "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee. " " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
527. oldal - I shall myself superintend the methods of instruction and tuition, and while maintaining that regularity and precision in the studies so important to mental training shall endeavor to prevent the necessary discipline from falling into a lifeless routine, alike deadening to the spirit of teacher and pupil.
778. oldal - The law of evolution, however, so far as its working is understood, is a law controlling development and keeping types within appointed cycles of growth, which revolve forever - upon themselves, returning at appointed intervals to the same starting-point and repeating through a succession of phases the same course.