The Amateur Microscopist: Or, Views of the Microscopic World, a Handbook of Microscopic Manipulation and Microscopic Objects ... Illustrated with 247 Figures on Wood and Stone |
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Page 63 - To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine, Contrivance intricate express'd with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees, The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point ; Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done, The Invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field...
Page 15 - The downy orchard, and the melting pulp Of mellow fruit, the nameless nations feed Of evanescent insects. Where the pool Stands mantled o'er with green, invisible, Amid the floating verdure millions stray.
Page 24 - While sailing a little south of the Plata on one very dark night, the sea presented a wonderful and most beautiful spectacle. There was a fresh breeze, and every part of the surface, which during the day is seen as foam, now glowed with a pale light. The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus, and in her wake she was followed by a milky train. As far as the eye reached, the crest of every wave was bright, and the sky above the horizon, from the reflected glare of these livid...
Page 76 - With golden letters on the illumined sky ; Nor less the mystic characters I see Wrought in each flower, inscribed on every tree: In every leaf that trembles to the breeze I hear the voice of God among the trees...
Page 52 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 63 - The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work, who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field; To wonder at a thousand insect forms.
Page 61 - Consider their incredible numbers, their universal distribution, their insatiable voracity; and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those ever active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere.
Page 57 - ... individuals, which she multiplies with admirable promptitude to infinity. The remains of such minute animals have added much more to the mass of materials which compose the exterior crust of the globe, than the bones of Elephants, Hippopotami, and Whales.
Page 114 - Which thousand mingling colours make ; Let the fierce glances of your eyes Rebate their baleful fire : In harmless play twist and unfold The volumes of your scaly gold : That rich embroidery of your gay attire, Proclaims your Maker kind and wise. • Insects and mites, of mean degree, That swarm in myriads o'er the land, Moulded by Wisdom's artful hand, And curl'd and painted with a various dye ; In your innumerable forms Praise him that wears the ethereal crown, And bends his lofty counsels down...
Page 97 - Some beds of coal appear to be wholly composed of minute leaves, or disintegrated foliage ; for if a mass be recently extracted from the mine, and split asunder, the exposed surfaces are found covered with delicate pellicles of carbonized leaves and fibres, matted together; and flake after flake may be peeled off through a thickness of many inches, and the same structure be apparent. Rarely are any large trunks or branches observable in the coal ; but the appearance is that of an immense deposit...