Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth. ... Translated from the Original French, by Mr. Humphreys |
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Page ix
... use of what the Ancients have publish'd upon fome of thefe Articles , too often with more Credulity than Exactness ; but the Reader will be more difpofed to relish what he finds warranted by the Teftimony of modern Obfervers , who have ...
... use of what the Ancients have publish'd upon fome of thefe Articles , too often with more Credulity than Exactness ; but the Reader will be more difpofed to relish what he finds warranted by the Teftimony of modern Obfervers , who have ...
Page 19
... use as fhe pleased ? -Experience will convince you better what it is that regulates her Choice . Take a Slice of Beef newly killed , and put it into an open Pot ; put likewise another Slice into a Pot that's very clean , and cover it ...
... use as fhe pleased ? -Experience will convince you better what it is that regulates her Choice . Take a Slice of Beef newly killed , and put it into an open Pot ; put likewise another Slice into a Pot that's very clean , and cover it ...
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... use Nets with large Meshes , thro ' which not only the Fry , but even Fish of a con- fiderable Size escape ? And yet this is no more than a juft Precaution taken by a wife Govern- ment , which at once provides for prefent Neceffity and ...
... use Nets with large Meshes , thro ' which not only the Fry , but even Fish of a con- fiderable Size escape ? And yet this is no more than a juft Precaution taken by a wife Govern- ment , which at once provides for prefent Neceffity and ...
Page 51
... use of their La- bours . Or Countess . There are two Methods of Rearing them : You may let them thrive and expatiate in full Liberty upon the Trees that nourish them : you may keep them at Home , in a Place par- ticularly accommodated ...
... use of their La- bours . Or Countess . There are two Methods of Rearing them : You may let them thrive and expatiate in full Liberty upon the Trees that nourish them : you may keep them at Home , in a Place par- ticularly accommodated ...
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... use it . For if the Butterfly , before it forfakes the Cone , difcharges a Liquor that cor- rupts it ; and if the likewife pierces a Hole thro ' it , it certainly must be all spoiled . Countefs . Countefs . That is true ; but there is ...
... use it . For if the Butterfly , before it forfakes the Cone , difcharges a Liquor that cor- rupts it ; and if the likewife pierces a Hole thro ' it , it certainly must be all spoiled . Countefs . Countefs . That is true ; but there is ...
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