| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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