Illustrations of Natural History: Wherein are Exhibited Upwards of Two Hundred and Forty Figures of Exotic Insects, According to Their Different Genera; ... With a Particular Description of Each Insect: ... By D. Drury. To which is Added, a Translation Into French

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الصفحة i - He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being ; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse ; grow familiar, day by day, 631 With his conceptions ; act upon his plan ; And form to his, the relish of their souls. NOTES ON THE FIRST BOOK. Ver. 161. Say, why was man, Sfc. IN apologizing for the frequent negligences of the sublimest authors of Greece, " Those god-like
الصفحة i - Illustrations of Natural History. Wherein are exhibited Upwards of Two Hundred and Forty Figures of Exotic Insects, According to their different Genera ; Very few of which have hitherto been figured by any Author, Being engraved and coloured from Nature, with the greatest Accuracy, and under the Author's own Inspection, On Fifty Copper- Plates.
الصفحة i - Drury, Dru 1773a Illustrations of natural history, wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and twenty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty copper-plates; with a particular description of each insect, interspersed...
الصفحة 32 - Thorax, abdomen, and wings of a fine red sandy brown color; the first ring of the abdomen with an ash-colored spot. Anterior wings with two whitish oblong spots on the external edges of each ; one near the tips, the other at the lower corners. A small whitish bar crosses the fore- wings about a quarter of an inch from the body, and next the shoulders is a spot of the same whitish color. Posterior wings brown, with an oblong whitish spot placed along the external edges, reaching from the abdominal...
الصفحة 32 - The Palpi are white. — The Tongue is curled up within them. — The Breaji is black, being fpotted with white on its fides.

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