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STUDY AND TEACHING OF NATURAL HISTORY. 3...
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cell He e de then la plus continues petite p in lante graceful est Men language au-dessus to de relate mes on forces what * " '
occasion he first became convinced of this truth . " . Un jour ma les d'ete decrire fenetre , j ' appercus . , de Le petites lendemain sur un mouches fraisier j ' y si en qui jolies vis etait d ' que une venu Tenvie autre par sorte me hasard semaines prit que sur de je
les trente decrivi t s encore . toutes J ' en d observai ifierentes , pendant mais il trois en vinta la , laissai fin , en sep la si gran cette especes d etude nombre quoi , et d ' une tres si ; amusante grande variete y parceque , que , je _jq
, que , inanquais It has de ever loisir been , et , one pour of dire the la characteristic verite , d ' expression s of geniu . " _^ s , to in the
combine two modes of thought , apparently incompatible sam and e th mind at of , — rendering viz ., the power minute of comprehensive attention to details generalizatio . It may n ,
a not of qualities be possible , which to all has of distinguished us to attain all to thi who s to rar have all e combin been , at not ion
generations merely lights ; yet to , their surel own y , it age is in , but the beacons power of all , by succeeding patient and diligent study , so far to improve their natural faculties from , as
to increase a thousand-fold the enjoyment they derive — _" The warbling woodlandthe resounding shore ,
The pomp of groves and , garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds ,
And all that echoes to the song of even , All that the mountain ' s sheltering bosom shields ,
And all the dread magnificence of heaven . "
Study And Teaching Of Natural History. 3...
STUDY AND TEACHING OF NATURAL HISTORY . 387
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/27/
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