 Go, from the creatures thy instructions take; learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; learn from the beasts the physic of the field; thy arts of building from the bee receive ; learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; learn of the little...  Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, ... - Strana 64upravili: - 1854 - 567 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1839 - 322 str.
...navigation owes its origin. A fine poet gives them the honour of being teachers to the mariner : " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The Chama-Gigas, or the Giant-Clam, is the largest of all the testaceous tribes. Linna;us... | |
 | 1839 - 384 str.
...Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' Here for the present we must leave these delightful volumes, we shall however take an... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1842 - 282 str.
...representative in miniature of a ship, that the primitive idea of navigation was acquired : man first Learnt of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. The primeval boat may have been an excavated tree, but vessels were soon afterwards formed... | |
 | George Brettingham Sowerby - 1842 - 350 str.
...gracefully on the Mediterranean waters ; and Pope has versified the idea in the well known lines " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.'" 74 ASIPHONIBRANCHIATA. testaceous part of the Ocythbe, and that the broad membranes... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 str.
...; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave ; Learn hammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters wi driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find. And hence let Reason, late, instruct mankind... | |
 | 1843 - 280 str.
...Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn from the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 str.
...arts of building from the bee receive ; 175 Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind... | |
 | 1844 - 440 str.
...Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale." J. PEMBERTON BARTLETT. Kingston Rectory, May, 1844. Notes on the cause of the nudity... | |
 | 1844 - 444 str.
...Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale." J. PEMBERTON BARTLETT. Kingston Rectory, May, 1844. Notes on the cause of the nudily... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 str.
...then erects a small membrane for a sail, and extends its six arms as oars. Our poet Pope says, " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the rising gale." 419 2 E 2 Of the shells of one species of nautilus the people of the East make very handsome drinking-cups.... | |
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