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" 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 other... "
The Entomologist's Useful Compendium: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge ... - Page 323
by George Samouelle - 1819 - 496 pages
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1828 - 590 pages
...appear to have been nature's favourite productions, in which,, to manifest her power and skill, she had combined and concentrated almost all that is either...singular, in every other class and order of her children, and even to the minutest has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Some she...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 2

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 516 pages
...to have been Nature's favourite productions ; in which, to recompense them for their weakness, and to manifest her power and skill, she has combined...delicate touch, and highest finish of her pencil, (p. 10.) " The splendid appearance of the plumage of tropical birds is not superior to what the curious...
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Sharpe's London Magazine, Volume 6

English literature - 1848 - 314 pages
...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....most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. What numbers vie with the charming offspring of Flora in various beauties ! Some in the delicacy and...
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Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and ..., Volume 6

1848 - 308 pages
...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...
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The Treasury of Natural History: Or, A Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature ...

Samuel Maunder - Animals - 1848 - 924 pages
...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...
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The Harmonies of Nature; Or, The Unity of Creation

Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1866 - 504 pages
...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...
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Picture natural history, with 600 illustr. The text by M.E.C. Boutell, ed ...

Mary Elizabeth C. Boutell - 1869 - 264 pages
...all of them small, and vast numbers of them most minute, of which it has been well said that they " appear to have been Nature's favourite productions,...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...
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

English periodicals - 1883 - 586 pages
...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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The Fisheries Exhibition Literature: Official reports and statistical tables

Fisheries - 1884 - 596 pages
...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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Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..

William Martin - Children's literature - 1857 - 356 pages
...which to manifest her power and skill. She has combined and concentrated almost all that is cither beautiful and graceful, interesting and alluring,...class and order of her children. To these, her valued ministers, she has given the most delicate touch and highest finish of her pencil. Numbers has she...
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