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The weather may be foretold with considerable certainty, for a short time, from many hygrometric plants, and the atmospheric influence on animals. Von Os. And from Cloudology, by the changing of primary clouds into compound; and these resolving themselves into nimbi, for rain; or gathering into cumuli, for fair weather. This is like to become a very useful and pleasing science. Dov.
One of the best ones is DOV' `E IL GATTO. It nearly always produces a pleasant surprise, therefore I save it up for places where I want to express applause or admiration. The fourth word has a French sound, and I think the phrase means "that takes the cake."
No; for who, without observation, or the information of others, ever by analogical reasoning could reconcile the enormous difference of size and colour, in the sexes of some of the humble bees? or ever discover that in some species there are even females of two sizes? Von Os. But these never grow. Dov. Certainly not.
He was not aware of the numerous species of British bees; and that several, of a small intrepid sort, will enter the hives, and prey on the treasures of their more industrious congeners. Von Os. Reasoning from analogy does not do in natural history. Dov.
And yet I see not why the bird should be given to spitting; unless, indeed, he came from America. Von Os. The vulgar, too, not only delight in wonders inexplicable, but have a rabid propensity to pry into futurity. Dov. I believe that propensity is far from being confined to the vulgar. Von Os. Dov.
We should thus free ourselves at once from a heavy and somnolent condition of body, from many and vehement diseases, from the want of medical assistance, from "the crassitude of the corporeal bond," and above all, from that savage and unnatural strength which incites to base actions, so as to escape an Iliad of evils! Dov.
After seven initiatory O's addressed to her friends and to life in general, she changes the key into E: "E' questa, la mia patria dov' io nacqui? E' questo il mio palagio e 'l mio castello? E' questo il nido ov' alcun tempo giacqui? E' questo il padre e 'l mio dolce fratello? E' questo il popol dov' io tanto piacqui? E' questo il regno giusto antico e bello? E' questo il porto de la mia salute?
And the slightest interview with the mass of mankind, any hour, will prove the race of Tenterden philosophers to be far from extinct. Dov.
I do not so much wonder at the fellow who inquired if America was a very large town, as at him who, finding the froth of the Cicada spumaria L. on almost every blade in his garden, wondered where were all the cuckoos that produced it. Dov. They call it cuckoo-spit, from its plentiful appearance about the arrival of that bird. Von Os. That is reasoning from analogy. Dov.
Who, walking on Chester walls in those days, and seeing the Brassica oleracea, where it grows in abundance, would have supposed that from it would spring cabbages as big as drums, and cauliflowers as florid as a bishop's wig? Dov. Or cautiously chaumbering an acrid sloe, imagine it to be the parent of a green gage? Von Os. This is the Education of Vegetables. Dov. The March of Increment!
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