...beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little Nautilus to...driving gale. Here too all forms of so'cial union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean works and cities see; There...

...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...

...this was the shell of the nautilus. " Ha !" cried Rosamond, " how glad I am to see the nautilus ! " ' Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' " But, ma'am, how does the nautilus sail ? Where is the thin oar? I do not see any thing here like...

...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 those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present...

...thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company; or again with the lines — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale ; and — The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line?...

...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...