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which caused the island to be considered sacred to Vulcan, and the various caverns below as the peculiar residence of the God. Quam subter, specus, et Cyclopum exesa caminis Antra Etnea tonant, validique incudibus ictus Auditi referunt gemitum, striduntque cavernis Strictur Chalybum, et fornacibus ignis anhelat, Vulcani domus et Vulcania nomine tellus. To me, I confess, the united effect of the silence and solitude of the spot, the depth of the internal cavity, its precipitous and overhanging

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the majesty of God, says, that, the mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and that the earth is burned at his presence. His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. (Nah. i. 5. 6.) Behold, says Micah, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the vallies shall be cleft as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. (Mic

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but were occasioned solely by the avarice and injustice of the higher classes of society. On the contrary, if I firmly believed that by the laws of nature, which are the laws of God, I had no claim of right to support, I should, in the first place, feel myself more strongly bound to a life of industry and frugality; but if want, notwithstanding, came upon me, I should consider it in the light of sickness, as an evil incidental to my present state of being, and which, if I could not avoid, it

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also our duty not to indulge ourselves in vicious gratifications; but I have never said that I expected either, much less both, of these duties to be completely fulfilled. In this, and a number of other cases, it may happen that the violation of one of two duties will enable a man to perform the other with greater facility; but if they be really both duties, and both practicable, no power on earth can absolve a man from the guilt of violating either. This can only be done by that God, who can

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, considering that it is more than twenty miles in circumference. On its borders was situated the antient Volsinium, one of the principal towns of Etruria; and the analogy of the modern name with the word Vulcan, especially according to the old spelling, may lead us to imagine that it derived its name from the homage paid to that God, originating in the volcanic ph nomena, which excited the fears of the earlier inhabitants. It is curious that the Volsci, as well as the * See Amm. Marcell. L. 17, c

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black, with a yellowish or whitish band on the posterior edge, and a row of blue spots above. Its caterpillar is blackish, spiny, with a series of red square divided spots along the back. It feeds on the leaves of the birch, osier, and poplar, and lives in societies. They appear at two separate periods. Pap. Io. Lin., God., ibid. t. v. 2., has angular indented wings, reddish fulvous above, with a large occellated spot on each wing; those of the upper wings reddish in the middle, surrounded by

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. Papilio Antiopa, Lin. 14. Libythia, Fab. 15. Biblis, Fab. 16. Nymphalis, Latr. Papilio Jason, Lin. 17. Morpho, Fab. 18. Pavonia, Cuv. Papilio Phidippus. 19. Brassolis, Fab. 20. Eumenia, God. 21. Eurybia, Illig. 22. Satyrus, Lat. 23. Erycina, Lat. 24. Myrina, Fab. 25. Polyommatus, Cuv. Papilio alexis, H bu. 26. Barbicornis, God. 27. Zephyrius, Dalm. 28. Hesperia, Fab. Hesperia malox, Fab. 29. Urania, Fab. Papilio riph us, Fab. II. CREPUSCULARIA. Sphinx, Lin. 1. Agarista, Leach. 2. Coronis, Lat. 3

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These species are found only in the alpine or subalpine parts of Europe and the north of Asia. Such is Pap. Apollo, Lin., God. II., B. 11. 1. White, spotted with black; four white eye-like spots, edged with a red circle and a black circle on the under wings. Its caterpillar lives on Sedum, telephicum, saxifrage, c. It is of a velvety black, with a row of red spots on each side and one on the back. The chrysalis is round, of a blackish green, slightly powdered with white or blueish*. THAIS, Fab

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the prejudice of religion, a distortion which has, perhaps, been facilitated by an occasional want of precision in his style, it has been our particular care in every individual instance of such perversion, to show its utter inapplicability to such an end. It is not the heavens alone that declare the glory of God. nor the firmament only which sheweth his wondrous works. His omnipotence, his wisdom, and his superintending providence, are equally manifested in the meanest worm that creeps upon the

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superior to the dark in intellectual and moral qualities. The New Hollanders, and the savages of Van Diemen's Land, are not less morally than physically degraded. They practise the most unfeeling barbarity to women and children; are implacable in revenge, and destitute of natural affection; they have no moral sense, no idea of a God, no religion, and but a rude notion of a future state, utterly uncon nected with any theological system. A moral and intellectual inferiority, more or less [page] 17

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effects, Of action and re-action. He has found The source of the disease that nature feels, And bids the world take heart and banish fear. Thou fool! will thy discovery of the cause Suspend th' effect, or heal it? Has not God Still wrought by means since first be made the world' And did he not of old employ his means To drown it? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for his use, and ready at his will I Go dress thine eyes with eye-salve; ask of him, Or ask of

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God. Pigafetta, who embarked in the fleet of Magellan in 1825, was the first navigator who ascertained that these birds had wings and feet like all other birds. When the islanders were informed that the Europeans were so tasteless as to prefer them in a perfect state, they began to preserve them accordingly. But, as for want of other means, they have continued to dry them, either in ovens, or hot sand, it Z 2 [page] 34

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applications which appear to have preceded the heroic ages, which have furnished to poetry so many brilliant metaphors to enrich the literature of Greece and Italy, though altered by ignorance, embellished by imagination, and falsified by superstition and by fear, prove that the ancients were very well acquainted with the manners of the serpent tribe. Thus they surrounded the wand of Esculapius with one of these reptiles, and the god himself was adored at Epidaurus under the form of a serpent

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subjects, is carried to such an extent as to produce the mortal malady which has been already noticed, namely, morbus pedicularis or phthiriasis. History has afforded us many examples of this; Pheretima, mentioned by Herodotus; Sylla, Antiochus Epiphanes, the two Herods, Maximin, and Philip the Second, perished of this disease, or something very analogous to it. Mr. Kirby is prone to think that it has fallen particularly as a judgment from God on the oppressors of mankind and the persecutors of

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stripes; the under wings elongated into a tail, and having, near the posterior edge, some blue spots, one of which is like an eye, with red at the internal angle. The caterpillar is green, with black rings, dotted with red, and lives on the leaves of carrot, fennel, c. P. Podalirius, God., and P. Alexanor, are also found in France*. ZELIMA, Fab. These differ from the last only by the club of the antenn , which is shorter and more rounded. I know two species of them, one of Senegal, and the other of

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covered with hair. EUMENIA, Fab., God., whose lower palpi are longer, and the antenn at a slight distance from their origin gradually enlarge and form a much elongated club . * See Godart's Hist. Nat. des Lepid. de France, and the Genus Nymphalis, in the Ency. Methodique. Ency. Method. Insect. IX. 826. Godart saw only specimens deprived of their antenn . M. Po has shown me some quite perfect which he took at Havannah. [page break

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some black points edged with white are also observable there. The caterpillar lives on the sainfoin, the genista of Germany, c. Its colours are varied. Other lepidoptera of the same division have antenn of a truly unusual form; those of one of the sexes of BARBICORNIS, God. are setaceous and plumose; those of ZEPHYRIUS, Dalm. are terminated by ten or twelve separate globular articulations, or like a chaplet. [Vide Encyc. Method. Insect, ix. 705. This genus is established on probably false

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, c. Some notodonta have the corslet and crest, a character which appears more proper to this last section: it is the same with those in which the lower palpi are much compressed, like those of the noctualites. (See hereafter the generalities of this division of night moths.) Add O. gnostigma of Ochsenheimer. The others are sericari . Hepiales testudo, asellus, bufo of Fabricius. See God. Lepid. de France, iv. 2791. [page break

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, have been dreaded for their malignancy, or despised for their stupidity. In the popular superstitions of different lands, the reptile races have almost invariably been clothed in revolting attributes, and even the worship which has sometimes been paid to them, was a religion, not of gratitude, but of fear. The God of Day was armed by the Grecian mythology with his unerring shafts to pierce the enormous Python; the terrific Achelo s was strangled, by the son of Jove, in spite of his contorted

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mental faculties of animals; at present, we shall merely acknowledge the finger of God, as displayed by the unconscious Pika for its own preservation, and pass on. Although well known by the Siberian hunters, this species almost escaped the notice of travellers, till the time of the indefatigable Pallas, who first gives us the details of its description and history. It is known by the name Pika or Peika, which Pallas adopted as specific, though it is now become a generic name by the Tungouse people

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preservation, and it must be most wicked and mischievous boy, says Dr. Latham, who will not pay some sort of deference to a very trite proverb, viz. 'The robin and the wren are God Almighty's cock and hen.' This species is tolerably extended throughout Europe. But the winters of the north are too rigorous for its constitution. It is seldom seen, says Linn us, in Sweden and the North of Russia. It is, however, reported to have been found at Oonalashka; but it is more than doubtful if the

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place one being between two others, and contrive to be ever at fault; true method sees each being in the middle of all the others, and shows all the radiations that link it more or less intimately in the vast web of organic nature; and thus alone we acquire enlarged ideas, worthy of that nature and of nature's God; but ten or twenty rays will be often insufficient to express these multifarious relations. It is therefore in the descriptions, that the idea to be formed of the degrees of organization

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, which he believes to have served as a model to the man or the god who first dared to open for himself a path upon the waters. Concealing itself, continues Oppian, in a concave shell, it can come to land, but it can also raise itself to the surface of the waters, the back of its shell being upwards, lest it should fill with water: as soon as it has arrived at the surface it turns its shell, and navigates like the most skilful sailor. For this purpose it extends like sail-yards two of its feet

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Dibolia, (Lat.) xv. 142 Dicerea, xiv. 357 Dicerous, insects called, xiv. 41 Dices, (Dej.) xv. 32 Dicheles, (Lep. Serv.) xiv. 488 Dicrania, (Lep. Serv.) xiv. 485 Dicranoura, (God.) xv. 612 Dictya, (Fab.) xv. 716 Diesia, xiv. 542 Diggers, description of, xiv. 197; xv. 374 Diglobicerus, xiv. 342 Dinaelatero des, xiv. 322 Dilophus, (Meig.) xv. 689 Dinetus, (Jur.) xv. 376 Dineutes, xiv. 253 Dinidor, sub-genus of, xv. 218 Dioctria, (Meig.) xv. 691 Dinodes rufipes, xiv. 225 Dion a muscipula, xv. 771 Dionix

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of all Bolotoo.' From this name one would suppose him to be the greatest god in Bolotoo, but he is inferior to the one before-mentioned. How he came by this name 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