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La politesse de la cour de Louis XIV., l'agrement de la langue Francaise, la douceur de la versification la plus naturelle, le sentiment le plus tendre, tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers." After Dryden had broken away from the heroic style, he speaks out more plainly.
In like manner, Lacepede was directed to the study of natural history by the perusal of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle, which he found in his father's library, and read over and over again until he almost knew it by heart.
This work is full of a variety of topics connected with the civil, political, military, agricultural, and commercial state of Tonquin; nor is it deficient in what relates to the natural history, and the manners, religion, &c. of the inhabitants, Histoire Naturelle et Civile du Tonquin. Par l'Abbé Richard. Paris, 1788. 2 Vols. 12mo.
Aristote disait que 'Si l'art de batir etait dans le bois, cet art agirait comme la nature. A la place de l'art de batir M. Darwin met l'election naturelle, et c'est tout un: l'un n'est pas plus chimerique que l'autre." And this is really all that M. Flourens can make of Natural Selection.
Sociability is thus extended to the whole species not only to a given society, or to a nation, as we saw it with the ants. This is a widely-known fact in La Plata, verified by the author. Handbuch fur Juger und Jagdberechtigte, quoted by Brehm, ii. 223. Buffon's Histoire Naturelle.
The "Mary Somerville" sailed, but was never heard of again; it was supposed she had foundered during a typhoon in the China sea. I was elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy at Dublin, of the Bristol Philosophical Institution, and of the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle of Geneva, which was announced to me by a very gratifying letter from Professor Prevost.
The plants, animals, soil, &c. as well as the religion, government, customs, manufactures are also described. Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Par M. Adanson. Paris. 1757. 4to.
In this the French must be allowed to excel all people in the world: they have 'un certain entregent, un enjouement, un aimable legerete dans la conversation, une politesse aisee et naturelle, qui paroit ne leur rien couter', which give society all its charms.
It was in this sense that the term was understood by the great writers of the middle of the last century Buffon and Linnaeus by Buffon in his great work, the "Histoire Naturelle Generale," and by Linnaeus in his splendid achievement, the "Systema Naturae." The subjects they deal with are spoken of as "Natural History," and they called themselves and were called "Naturalists."
But where is Civiale, where are Orfila, Gendrin, Rostan, Biett, Alibert, jolly old Baron Alibert, whom I remember so well in his broad-brimmed hat, worn a little jauntily on one side, calling out to the students in the court-yard of the Hospital St. Louis, "Enfans de la methode naturelle, etes-vous tous ici?" All here, then, perhaps; all where, now? My show of ghosts is over.
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