 Insects, indeed, appear to have been nature's favourite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined and concentrated almost all that is either beautiful and graceful, interesting and alluring, or curious and singular, in every...  Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy ... - Pàgina 239editat per - 1829Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pàgines
...deeply into the study. Insects, indeed, appear to have been nature's favorite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals1... | |
 | 1848 - 308 pàgines
...and concentrated almost all that is either heautiful or graceful, interesting or alluring, curious or singular, in every other class and order of her children....most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. What numhers vie with the charming offspring of Flora in various heauties ! Some in the delicacy and... | |
 | 1848 - 314 pàgines
...language of Messrs. Kirby and Spence, " They appear to have been nature's favourite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...and concentrated almost all that is either beautiful or graceful, interesting or alluring, curious or singular, in every other class and order of her children.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1848 - 924 pàgines
...uni »Ы her power and skill, she has combitutl anil сигкч-ntniU'd almost all that i« cither beautiful and graceful. Interesting and alluring, or curious and singular, in every other clan and order of her children. To these her valued miniature« •he ii-i- "i\. n the most delicate... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pàgines
...deeply into the study. Insects, indeed, appear to have been nature's favourite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a lustre like that of burnished metals '... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pàgines
...the beautiful language of Kirby and Spence, "to have been nature's favorite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a luster like that of burnished metals ;... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1866 - 496 pàgines
...point of view we may consider them, they constantly afford new subjects of admiration and delight ; for all that is either beautiful and graceful, interesting...curious and singular in every other class and order of the animal world has been combined and concentrated in these miniature masterpieces of Nature, a glimpse... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth C. Boutell - 1869 - 264 pàgines
...which it has been well said that they " appear to have been Nature's favourite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...singular, in every other class and order of her children." Of these, " her valued miniatures, to which Nature has given the most delicate touch and highest finish... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 pàgines
...the beautiful language of Kirby and Spence, "to have been nature's favorite productions, in which, to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers she has armed with glittering mail, which reflects a luster like that of buruished metals ;... | |
 | 1883 - 586 pàgines
...fish. Insects have been said to be Nature's most favoured creation, having combined in them all that is beautiful and graceful, interesting and alluring, or curious and singular, in every other class of her (Nature's) productions. They are placed by entomologists in three great divisions, in accordance... | |
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