The Youth's Book of Nature: Or, The Four Seasons Illustrated: Being Familiar Descriptions of Natural History, Made During Walks in the Country, Volumes 1-2D. Appleton & Company, 1845 - Nature study |
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Page vi
... leaves of the volume of creation . He is assured , that the scenes it describes , with a very little pains , may be carried out into action , since the book is only a transcript of what has constantly taken place in his own family . He ...
... leaves of the volume of creation . He is assured , that the scenes it describes , with a very little pains , may be carried out into action , since the book is only a transcript of what has constantly taken place in his own family . He ...
Page 5
... leaves , the songs of the birds , the whole crea- tion awakening from its wintry slumbers , especially delights me . Spring too perhaps is more pleasing , because it comes after the cold and barren season ; and because it promises a ...
... leaves , the songs of the birds , the whole crea- tion awakening from its wintry slumbers , especially delights me . Spring too perhaps is more pleasing , because it comes after the cold and barren season ; and because it promises a ...
Page 11
... also remarks , that , reasoning from ana- logy , it is credible there are animals feeding on the leaves of plants , like the cattle in our meadows , and on our mountains ; which repose under the shade of a. THE STRAWBERRY PLANT . 11.
... also remarks , that , reasoning from ana- logy , it is credible there are animals feeding on the leaves of plants , like the cattle in our meadows , and on our mountains ; which repose under the shade of a. THE STRAWBERRY PLANT . 11.
Page 26
... leaf , and soon pass away . But tell me its place in the Linnean system . Here are five stamens ; it must , therefore , be in the fifth class , or Pentandria ; here are two pointals ; it must belong to digynia , or the second order ...
... leaf , and soon pass away . But tell me its place in the Linnean system . Here are five stamens ; it must , therefore , be in the fifth class , or Pentandria ; here are two pointals ; it must belong to digynia , or the second order ...
Page 36
... leaf , and actually sows it to the side of the living one . Its bill is the needle , and some fine fibres of the tree , the thread by which it fastens several leaves together ; and when it has thus made a bag , it forms its nest in it ...
... leaf , and actually sows it to the side of the living one . Its bill is the needle , and some fine fibres of the tree , the thread by which it fastens several leaves together ; and when it has thus made a bag , it forms its nest in it ...
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