First Book of NatureContributor Company, 1888 - 265 Seiten |
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Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acid animals appears beautiful bees Beetle birds birds of prey blossom body bones branches brown rat calcareous called CHAPTER coal color common consists corolla covered crystals cuckoo deposited distance eagle earth eggs eyes fact feathers feed feet figure fishes flower frequently frog fruit grains ground grow growth hair hard head heat heavenly insects kind larger larva leaf leaves light limestone little creature live look material matter miles mollusks moon mouth nature nest ordinary ostrich ovary particles pebbles peculiar perfect pistil PLANT STEMS plants pollen prey produced pupa quadrupeds readily rock roots sand seeds seems seen sepals shape shell skin smaller soft soil solar eclipse solid soon species spider stalk stamens stars stem stone stout streams surface Surinam Toad tail teeth tiny toads tortoises tree usually variety vegetable vessel wasps wings winter wonderful worm
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 240 - If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Seite 207 - ... so hard as never to betray the touch or moulder away beneath the steel ; and so admirably crystallized and of such permanent elements, that no rains dissolve it, no time changes it, no atmosphere decomposes it ; once shaped, it is shaped forever, unless subjected to actual violence or attrition.
Seite 184 - My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Seite 258 - He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.
Seite 240 - O ! who can lift above a careless look, While such bright scenes as these his thoughts engage, And doubt, while reading from so fair a book, That God's own finger traced the glowing page, Or deem the radiance of yon blue expanse, With all its starry hosts, the careless work of Chance?
Seite 234 - ... from the records of time. Kings and conquerors have marched at the head of armies across continents, and piled up aggregates of human suffering and experience to the heavens, and all the physical traces of their march have totally disappeared; but the solitary biped which stalked along the margins of a New England inlet before the human race was born, pressed footprints in the soft and shifting sand which the rising and sinking of the continent could not wipe out.
Seite 132 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Seite 97 - Rot him on board, he broke off about three feet of the ship's bulwarks by a single lash of his tremendous tail. This was then cut off by the boatswain with a hatchet, while a dozen of us with bowie-knives finished him. We found in his stomach six large snakes, two empty quart bottles, two...
Seite 230 - The crust of our earth is a great cemetery where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.
Seite 207 - It is neither hard nor brittle, nor flaky, nor splintery, but uniform and delicately, yet not ignobly soft — exactly soft enough to allow the sculptor to work it without force, and trace on it the finest lines of finished form...