...which catches the wind ; its other arms hang out as a rudder to steer it the way it wishes. "Learn from the little Nautilus to sail, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale." Nature also gives other hints, for the fins (from L. pinna) of a fish would suggest the use of a propelling...

...physic of the field ; jr""" 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. Following the example of the ants and bees, man was supposed to have founded an ideal patriarchal state,...

...fifteen feet long, " a veritable comet, and at night a phosphorescent meteor." Alexander Pope wrote: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Of this beautiful little animal Dr. Holder writes: If we are very fortunate we shall sec the paper...

...avenger breeds; The fury-passions from that blood began, And turn'd on man, a fiercer savage, man. See him from nature rising slow to art! To copy instinct...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities see; There towns...

...Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield f Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities sec; There towns...

...Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thv arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities see; There towns...

...directing mankind to the providence of God as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody these lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present...

...on coinage, was greatly honored by the poets, so that Pope, who knew his classics, felt bold to say: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale. Though the sails are poetic in license, the oars are there, and the fairy argosy is a thing of beauty...

...gliding gaily before the gentle zephyrs of the line. They truly teach us a lesson, as Pope has it: "Learn of the Little Nautilus to sail Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." With the picking up of the NE trade wind a few degrees north of the line, we knew that the main haul...

...SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 7. 1 Mr. Dick could never keep it out of his Memorial Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 582. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), Essay on Man : Epistle III. (The) learned eye is still the loving...