...own. ***** Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. * * » * * For forms of government let fools contest ; ' Whate'er is best administer'd, is best : For...

...arms for sails, and its slender arms as oars, from whence Pope gave his wellknown lines, " Learn from the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale," proves to be a fiction. The dilated arms are used by the animal to clasp the shell and keep it on the...

...Cleopatra. We have seen thousands of them bounding over the billows, reminding us of Pope's couplet : " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the rising gale.'' After our return to the ship, Captain Davis and another party made an excursion in the...

...instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive;...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small...

...instruction take; Learn from the birds, what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts, the physic of the field; Thy arts of building, from the bee receive;...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philosopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation...

...n. $. Fr. nautile ; lat * tilus. A shell fish furnished with somtik; analogous to oars and a sail. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gileiff' The little ntmtitui, with purple pride Expands his sails, and dances o'er the v\ -v Gnrf This...

...voice of Nature spake, Go from these creatures, thy instruction take ; Lessons of industry from the ant receive, Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; .Learn of the little Nautilus.to sail, Spread thu thin oar and catch the driving gale. • Learn from the birds that food...

...found. Of sea snails, the most curious is the nautilus, to which the poet alludes, in these words : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the favouring gale. It is furnished with eight feet, connected by a fine membrane. Of these, six feet are...

...found. Of sea snails, the most curious is the nautilus, to which the poet alludes, in these words : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the favouring gale. i IJ ..•"••' ' . It is furnished with eight feet, connected by a fine membrane....

...obligations ; and. having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molrhil:. South's St'rnwns. Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. l'ope. Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves deep, when...