 | 1825 - 366 sider
...observing the Nautilus. Theirs was the paper Nautilus, such as is seen in the picture. Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Parting Address to the Children of a Sunday School *. My dear Children, ACCEPT this parting address... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 sider
...union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities sec ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each...genius, policies, The ant's republic, and the realm of Ixies ; How those in common all their wealth bestow, And anarchy without confusion know ; And these... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 sider
...the wicked exist no more for ever. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul, Praise Jehovah ! 8 " Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." POPE. This fish swims on the surface of the sea, on the back of its shell, which exactly resembles... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 sider
...the example she affords has been held out by they as still deserving imitation : — " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."1 Sea Tortoises, without any teacher but nature, instinctively taught to lay their eggs on the... | |
 | 1827 - 290 sider
...arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. * * » * * For forms of government let fools contest ; ' Whate'er is best administer'd, is best : For... | |
 | British Museum - 1852 - 280 sider
...for sails, and its slender arms as oars, from whence Pope gave his wellknown lines, " Learn from the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale," proves to be a fiction. The dilated arms are used by the animal to clasp the shell and keep it on the... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1828 - 106 sider
...arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind ; Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 sider
...of building from the bee receive ; Learn of tUe mole to plough ; the worm, to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philo" sopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation... | |
 | 1829 - 906 sider
...arts of building, from the bee receive; Learn of the mole, to plough, the worm, to weave; Learn of the little nautilus, to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philosopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 sider
...nautile ; lat * tilus. A shell fish furnished with somtik; analogous to oars and a sail. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gileiff' The little ntmtitui, with purple pride Expands his sails, and dances o'er the v\ -v Gnrf This... | |
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Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 
