The Honey BeeJ. Murray, 1852 - 99 páginas |
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... 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 entrance of a bee ...
... 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 entrance of a bee ...
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... natural history ; but the book of all books to which the scholar will turn again and again with increased delight , is the fourth Georgic . This , the most beautiful portion of the most finished poem of Roman antiquity , is wholly ...
... natural history ; but the book of all books to which the scholar will turn again and again with increased delight , is the fourth Georgic . This , the most beautiful portion of the most finished poem of Roman antiquity , is wholly ...
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... natural commonwealth . " The queen , " says our old author , “ is a fair and stately bee , differing from the vulgar both in shape and colour . " And it is amus- ing that the most sober writers cannot speak of her without assigning her ...
... natural commonwealth . " The queen , " says our old author , “ is a fair and stately bee , differing from the vulgar both in shape and colour . " And it is amus- ing that the most sober writers cannot speak of her without assigning her ...
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... natural stream is at hand . It seems that bees , like men , require a certain quantity of saline matter for their health . In the Isle of Wight the people have a notion that every bee goes down to sea to drink twice a - day ; and they ...
... natural stream is at hand . It seems that bees , like men , require a certain quantity of saline matter for their health . In the Isle of Wight the people have a notion that every bee goes down to sea to drink twice a - day ; and they ...
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... natural heat , and prolongeth old age : it keepeth all things uncorrupt which are put into it ; and therefore physicians do temper therewith such medicines as they mean to keep long ; yea the bodys of the dead , being embalmed with ...
... natural heat , and prolongeth old age : it keepeth all things uncorrupt which are put into it ; and therefore physicians do temper therewith such medicines as they mean to keep long ; yea the bodys of the dead , being embalmed with ...
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