Archive image from page 48 of An enquiry into the nature,. An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees .. CUbiodiversity1188016 Year: 1765 ( ( 4i ) - CHAP. III. the Defcription, or Anatomy of the Bee. AM now entring upon a fervice, to which I am unequal, and much unqualified for. So many and fo great are the difficulties that attend enquiries of this kind, that a much abler hand, and more ingenious mind, is necefTary to remove them, and place what comes here under confU deration in a clearer and fuller view. After all our late improvements in natural philofophy, there yet remain
Archive image from page 48 of An enquiry into the nature,. An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees .. CUbiodiversity1188016 Year: 1765 ( ( 4i ) - CHAP. III. the Defcription, or Anatomy of the Bee. AM now entring upon a fervice, to which I am unequal, and much unqualified for. So many and fo great are the difficulties that attend enquiries of this kind, that a much abler hand, and more ingenious mind, is necefTary to remove them, and place what comes here under confU deration in a clearer and fuller view. After all our late improvements in natural philofophy, there yet remains thofe fecrets in nature, that the mod diligent, accurate fearch, and painful difquifition, will not be fufficient fully to difcover. In naturals, as well as fpirituals, we fhall know only jn part. And after we have gone the utmoft lengths pofiible, in fuch enquiries, there will be fame imperfec- tion in our knowledge, during the prefent depreflion of our nature. Many ufeful obfervations have been made in thefe lat- ter times, by the improvement of the microicope; whereby a very great difference between things natural and artificial hath been made manifeft. There are fuch and fo great embellifhmentsand curi- ous inimitable embroideries in the fmalleft feeds of plants and
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