The honey bee [by T. James].1852 |
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... perhaps no branch of natural history in which the ancients arrived at so much truth . If since the invention of printing authors can gravely relate stories of an old woman who , having placed a portion of the consecrated elements at the ...
... perhaps no branch of natural history in which the ancients arrived at so much truth . If since the invention of printing authors can gravely relate stories of an old woman who , having placed a portion of the consecrated elements at the ...
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... perhaps to the east ; be protected from the north and prevailing winds ; not too far from the dwelling , lest they become shy of man , nor too near , lest they be interrupted by him . No paths should cross its entrance , no high trees ...
... perhaps to the east ; be protected from the north and prevailing winds ; not too far from the dwelling , lest they become shy of man , nor too near , lest they be interrupted by him . No paths should cross its entrance , no high trees ...
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... perhaps they may feel the repercussion of sounds , I grant it is possible they may . Yet that these impressions are distasteful or hurtful I deny , be- cause bees , in good summers , thrive well in my outlet , where the echoes are very ...
... perhaps they may feel the repercussion of sounds , I grant it is possible they may . Yet that these impressions are distasteful or hurtful I deny , be- cause bees , in good summers , thrive well in my outlet , where the echoes are very ...
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... perhaps all the more because he was very ob- servant of the habits of his little friends , as well as careful in harvesting as much honey as he could . But how came his hive to prosper when all the rest were falling off ? His cottage ...
... perhaps all the more because he was very ob- servant of the habits of his little friends , as well as careful in harvesting as much honey as he could . But how came his hive to prosper when all the rest were falling off ? His cottage ...
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... perhaps a few pines , within a mile around , when all the valley and the woodland below are wet with dew and dank with foliage , and then say whether such an expanse can be well ex changed for any conceivable advantage of thicket or ...
... perhaps a few pines , within a mile around , when all the valley and the woodland below are wet with dew and dank with foliage , and then say whether such an expanse can be well ex changed for any conceivable advantage of thicket or ...
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Página 97 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Página 94 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Página 7 - A bee amongst the flowers in spring, is one of the most cheerful objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased...
Página 17 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Página 84 - It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived from time to time, with full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum.
Página 82 - ... bee. We had not been long in the camp, when a party set out in quest of a bee-tree ; and being curious to witness the sport, I gladly accepted an invitation to accompany them. The party was headed by a veteran...
Página 83 - Even a loud crack which announced the disrupture of the trunk, failed to divert their attention from the intense pursuit of gain ; at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a wisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees.
Página 82 - ... and without a hat, straddled along at his heels, with a long rifle on his shoulder. To these succeeded half a dozen others, some with axes and some with rifles, for no one stirs far from the camp without his firearms, so as to be ready either for wild deer or wild Indian.
Página 83 - The latter, however, made no attack and sought no revenge ; they seemed stupefied by the catastrophe and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about the ruins without offering us any molestation. Every one of the party now fell to, with spoon and hunting-knife, to scoop out the flakes of honey-comb with which the hollow trunk was stored.
Página 96 - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad...