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associated them in her mind as inseparable, long resisted all the attempts of a holy father to baptize her. When asked her reason, she said it was for fear of death. O! replies the father, I want to baptize you to secure you a life that will never end. (Para assegurarle una vida que no se accabe.) If that be the case, cries the old woman, baptize me immediately. (Yo tambien quiero que me bautices.) I praised God, says Father Gumilla, on seeing that nobody likes to die, however troublesome life

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performed, and may be considered in some measure as an apostle of the Lord by carrying the gospel among the heathen; and that the other apostles were called upon from the sea and the rivers, and not from courts and palaces, by him whose progenitors were of the royal blood of the Jews, yet who was pleased that they should be in a low and unknown estate: And seeing that God had gifted my father with those personal qualities which so well fitted him for so great an undertaking, he was himself

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flee, as God fought against them. But William bravely answered, "God forbid that my father's son should flee from the face of a Saracen." Earl Robert turned out of the fight, and fled away, thinking to escape from death or captivity by the swiftness of his horse; and taking the river Thafnis[6], sank through the weight of his armour, and was drowned. On the flight of Earl Robert, the French troops lost heart, and began to give ground: But William Longespee, bearing up manfully against the whole

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have come to England with his father, he must have attained to seventy years of age at the period of this grant--E.] Edward the Sixth, by the Grace of God king of England, France, and Ireland, to all believers in Christ to whom these presents may come, wisheth health. Know ye, that in consideration of the good and acceptable service, done and to be done to us by our well-beloved servant Sebastian Cabot, we of our special grace, certain knowledge and goodwill, and by the councel and advice of our

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, where these articles might have been washed on shore: Or they may have attributed the storm, by which they were driven so far beyond their knowledge, to the anger of the God of the Christians, for their sacrilegious robbery of a holy institution, and may have left these articles behind, in hopes of propitiating a more favourable termination to their voyage. The first settlers found extensive forests in the valleys of Iceland; and we know, from authentic documents, that corn was formerly

A749    Beagle Library:     Buch, Leopold von. 1813. Travels through Norway and Lapland during the years 1806, 1807 and 1808. Translated by John Black. With notes by R. Jameson. London: Henry Colburn.   Text

like corn, a noble gift of God for the maintenance of man and beast; and straw on the roof, is to the inhabitant of Norway, or Westbothnia, or J mteland, such a sight as a roof covered with bread would be to a German boor. In Falckenberg we see, for the last time, houses covered with straw, on our way to Norway; and it is singular enough that the country about Halland possesses a sufficiency of straw for the purpose of thatching. Yet there is no stir in the harbour! Warberg is a better, larger, and

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No doubt, many a philanthropist will here break out in complaints and wishes (and how often do we not hear them?) that this people had never been incited to have any connexion with trade, and that they might have continued to live happily and unnoticed in their former innocence. Would to God, that neither the Norwegians nor the brandy, had ever found their way to these Fiords! This might be all very well, if a troglodite life of this sort were either the happiness or destiny of a people; if

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circumstances were favourable, such was the plan I pursued; and with the blessing of GOD, nothing of importance should have been left for future discoverers, upon any part of these extensive coasts; but with a ship incapable of encountering bad weather, which could not be repaired if sustaining injury from any of the numerous shoals or rocks upon the coast, which, if constant fine weather could be ensured and all accidents avoided, could not run more than six months; with such a ship, I knew not how to

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merits, and put for all wisdom, while knowledge of things, especially of the productions of nature, is derided as if it were mere folly. We should recollect that God hath condescended to instruct us by both these ways, and therefore neither of them should be depreciated. He hath set before us his word and his world. The former is the great avenue to truth and knowledge by the study of words, and, as being the immediate and authoritative revelation of his will, is entitled to our principal attention

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progress of which he would doubtless be assisted by that DIVINE guidance, which even now is with those who honestly seek the truth. Both divines and philosophers have embraced this opinion, which is built upon the word of GOD itselfa. This last purpose of the Creator was the root of the analogies, connecting different objects with each other that have no real affinity, observable in the works of creation: so that from the bottom to the top of the scale of being, there is many a series of analogous

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hardihood to deny that God created them, that the study of insects and their ways is trifling or unprofitable? Were they not arrayed in all their beauty, and surrounded with all their wonders, and made so instrumental (as I shall hereafter prove them to be) to our welfare, that we might glorify and praise him for them? Why were insects made attractive, if not, as Ray well expresses it, that they might ornament the universe and be delightful objects of contemplation to mana? And is it not clear, as Dr

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Phthiriasis or pedicular disease, and you must own that, for the quelling of human pride, and to pull down the high conceits of mortal man, this most loathsome of all maladies, or one equally disgusting, has been the inheritance of the rich, the wise, the noble, and the mighty; and in the list of those that have fallen victims to it, you will find poets, philosophers, prelates, princes, kings, and emperors. It seems more particularly to have been a judgement of God upon oppression and tyranny, whether

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surface of a country is covered by them, and everyone makes bare the spot on which it stands, the mischief produced may be as infinite as their numbers. So well do the Arabians know their power that they make a locust say to Mahomet We are the army of the Great God; we produce ninety-nine eggs; if the hundred were completed, we should consume the whole earth and all that is in ita. Since it is possible you may not have paid particular attention to the accounts given by various authors both

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select for them. But no: as if aware that this food would be to them poison, she is in search of some plant of the cabbage tribe. But how is she to distinguish it from the surrounding vegetables? She is taught of God! Led by an instinct far more unerring than the practised eye of the botanist, she recognises the desired plant the moment she approaches it, and upon this she places her precious burthen; yet not without the further precaution of ascertaining that it is not preoccupied by the eggs

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stinet apartment. How, you will ask, is she to form these? With what materials can she construct the floors and ceilings? Why truly GOD doth instruct her to discretion and doth teach her. In excavating her tunnel she has detached a large quantity of fibres, which lie on the ground like a heap of saw-dust. This material supplies all her wants. Having deposited an egg at the bottom of the cylinder along with the requisite store of pollen and honey, she next, at the height of about three quarters

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first idea that will, I should hope, strike the mind of every thinking being, is the truth of the Psalmist's observation that the tender mercies of God are over all his works. Not the least and most insignificant of his creatures is, we see, deprived of his paternal care and attention; none are exiled from his all-directing providence. Why then should man, the head of the visible creation, for whom all the inferior animals were created and endowed; for whose well-being, in some sense, all these

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the objects required to fill it up are still in existence but have not yet been discovereda: and this opinion is founded on a dictum of Linn , Natura saltus non facitb. If this dictum be liberally interpreted, according to the evident meaning of the word saltus, few will be disposed to object to it; since both observation and analogy combine to prove that there must be a regular approximation of things to each other in the works of God; and that could we see the whole according to his original

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and delight is the corporeal and spiritual ruin of the noble creature who is placed at the head of the visible works of GOD. The other tribe of animals that I mentioned of a milder character, may be looked upon as represented by many herbivorous, or not carnivorous, insects; amongst others, the Lamellicorn beetles imitate them by their remarkable horns, so that they wear the aspect of miniature bulls, or deer, or antelopesa, or rams, or goats, whether these horns are processes of the head or of

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insects of almost every one of the modern Ordersb. They are represented as employed divinit s sometimes to annoy the enemies of the Israelites, and at others to punish that people themselves when they apostatized from their God. The prophets frequently introduce them as symbols of enemies that lay waste or oppress the church: as the fly of the Ethiopians or Egyptians; the bee of the Assyrians; and the locust of the followers of Mahomet and other similar destroyersc. That Solomon, amongst other

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the works of GOD. The illustrious philosopher whose name distinguishes this new era, imbibed a taste for Entomology almost as early as for Botanyb; and though the latter became his favourite, and absorbed his principal attention, he did not altogether neglect the former. In the first edition of his Systema Natur , published in 1735, and contained in only fourteen folio pagesc, he began to arrange the three kingdoms of nature after his own conceptions. But this initiatory sketch, as might be

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attention has been paid to the collection of plants than to that of insects, and that 100,000 species of the latter may be supposed already to have a place a Essai El ment, de Geograph. Botan. 62. b Wisdom of God, c. 2d edit. 9. [page] 47

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Moutac, which a Wisdom of God, 9th ed. 307. Ray first adopted the opinion here maintained, that the Cossi were the larv of some beetle; but afterwards, from observing in the caterpillar of Bombyx Cossus a power of retracting its Prolegs within the body, he conjectured that the hexapod larva from Jamaica, (Prionus damicornis?) given him by Sir Hans Sloane, might have the same faculty, and so be the caterpillar of a Bombyx. a Amoreux has collected the different opinions of entomologists on the

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editas aliasque noviter inventas et descriptas complectens. Londini 1686. fol. The wisdom of God manifested in the works of creation. London 1692. 8vo. *Historia Insectorum, cui subjungitur appendix de Scarab is Britannicis autore M. Lister. Londini 1710. 4to. [page] 58

A710.02    Beagle Library:     Mariner, William. 1817. An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. 2 vols. London: printed for the author. vol. 2.   Text

that patronizes the How's family, but is particularly the patron god of T Oomoo, the late king's aunt. This god is now and then invoked by the king's family, but very frequently by T Oomoo. He has a large consecrated fencing at Ofoo, one of the islands in the vicinity of Vavaoo: he has, at least, one priest, and is very frequently consulted in behalf of sick persons. A'LO A'LO; literally, to fan. God of wind and weather, rain, harvest, and vegetation in general. This god is generally invoked

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the natives themselves can give no account; the only answer they make is, that such is his proper name. Although he is the god of Bolotoo, he is inferior to Tali y Toobo, insomuch that they scarcely make a comparison between them; if you ask them whether Tooi fooa Bolotoo is a great god, they will answer, Yes, he is a very great god. Is Tali y Toobo a greater god? Yes, much greater. How great, then, is Tali y Toobo? He is a great chief, from the top of the sky down to the bottom of the earth