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From the scriptual account of these insects, one might be led to suspect, that in some climates they lay up a provision for the winter. Cels. The history of these has been lately well described in the Philosoph. Transactions, under the name of termes, or termites.
ATKITSON AND MARTINEAU, "Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development." DR. PRIESTLEY, "Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colors." MR. DUGALD STEWART, "Philosoph. Essays," p. 187. DR. PRIESTLEY, "Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit;" "Free Discussion of the Doctrine of Materialism;" "Correspondence between Dr. Priestley and Dr. Price."
An interesting account of this man, eminent as a writer and thinker in his age, will be found in a biography by Dr Joel, published at Breslau in 1862, 'Levi Ben Gerson als Religions philosoph. He distinguished himself as a writer on theology, philosophy, and astronomy; he was one of the successors to the free speculative vein of Maimonides, and one of the continuators of the Arabic Aristotelian philosophy.
Considering the strictly subterranean habits of the tucu-tuco, the blindness, though so common, cannot be a very serious evil; yet it appears strange that any animal should possess an organ frequently subject to be injured. "Philosoph.
Although flying from flower to flower in search of food, its stomach generally contained abundant remains of insects, which I suspect are much more the object of its search than honey. The note of this species, like that of nearly the whole family, is extremely shrill. Caldeleugh, in Philosoph. Transact. for 1836. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, March, 1833.
This something is rooted in the invisible roots, the profoundest meanings of that place, race, or nationality; and to absorb and again effuse it, uttering words and products as from its midst, and carrying it into highest regions, is the work, or a main part of the work, of any country's true author, poet, historian, lecturer, and perhaps even priest and philosoph.
Moreover, no philologist now supposes that any language has been deliberately invented; it has been slowly and unconsciously developed by many steps. See some good remarks on this head by Prof. Whitney, in his 'Oriental and Linguistic Studies, 1873, p. 354. Hon. Daines Barrington in 'Philosoph. Transactions, 1773, p. 262. See also Dureau de la Malle, in 'Ann. des. Sc.
Peaceful reconciliation is of more worth than the spirit's hardly gained victory in the conflict with the sensibility; fine feeling is more than rational volition; the highest ideal is the beautiful soul, in which inclination not merely obeys the command of duty, but anticipates it. Cf. Kuno Fischer, Schiller als Philosoph, 1858, 2d ed.
Read before the Academy of Sciences in Paris. L'Institut, 1834, p. 418. Geolog. Transact. vol. ii. p. 528. In the Philosoph. Transact. Priestly has described some imperfect siliceous tubes and a melted pebble of quartz, found in digging into the ground, under a tree, where a man had been killed by lightning. Annals de Chimie et de Physique, tom. xxxvii. p. 319. Azara's Voyage, vol. i. p. 36.
Its noise is different from that of the Maldonado kind; it is repeated only twice instead of three or four times, and is more distinct and sonorous; when heard from a distance it so closely resembles the sound made in cutting down a small tree with an axe, that I have sometimes remained in doubt concerning it. Philosoph. Zoolog., tom. i. p. 242. Magazine of Zoology and Botany, vol. i. p. 217.
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