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If the "undevout astronomer" be "mad," the undevout microscopist must be still more so, for if the matter be judged by human sense, the skill is greater as the operation is more minute; and not the sun itself, nor the central orb round which he revolves, with all his attendant worlds, can furnish sublimer objects of contemplation, than the miraculous assemblage of forces which make up the life of the smallest creature that the microscope reveals.

Professor Huxley thinks that, notwithstanding "the marked differences" between the Annelida (worms) and the preceding Arthropods (joint-foots), their resemblances outweighing them-"the characters of the nervous system, and the frequently segmented body, with imperfect[143] lateral appendages of the Annelida, necessitates their assemblage with the Arthropoda in one great division, or sub-kingdom, of Annulosa.

Indeed, the name, nervous, has generally been given to an assemblage of symptoms, which the physicians did not understand; and when the patient relates a history of symptoms, and expects that his physician shall inform him of the name, and nature of his complaint, he generally receives for answer, that his complaints are nervous, or bilious; terms which convey no distinct ideas, but which serve to satisfy the patient, and to conceal the ignorance of the physician, or spare him the labour of thinking.

Transplanted from Nature's garden into our own, into what Thoreau termed "that meager assemblage of curiosities, that poor apology for Nature and Art which I call my front yard," clumps of butterfly-weed give the place real splendor and interest.

The ice afterwards descends the fall, the portions exposed to view being a fantastic assemblage of frozen boulders, pinnacles, and towers, some erect, some leaning, falling at intervals with a sound like thunder, and crushing the ice-crags on which they fall to powder.

His smiles, in such an assemblage of melancholy faces, produced an incongruous effect.

There is also in the village a small country inn called the Davenant Arms, where the professor put up and where he made himself extraordinarily popular, because, finding himself among an assemblage of folk slow to see and slower still to think, he astonished them for four nights consecutively.

The modern American windmill, with its disklike assemblage of numerous light sails, and ingenious contrivances for veering, reefing, etc.

Such of my readers who may have formed their first ideas of the natural system from some order, the flowers of which bear a strong resemblance to each other, will be surprised at reading the names of the heterogeneous assemblage of plants at the head of this chapter; for surely no flowers can bear less resemblance to each other than the buttercup and the peony do to the columbine and the larkspur.

It is to his zeal that we owe a very interesting assemblage of old observations which were buried in archives and chronicles.

And this was not a mere assemblage of hearers.

On the 9th February another assemblage of roughs took place in Trafalgar Square, and fears that further riots would ensue took possession of the West End; but the police were equal to the emergency, and the meeting was dispersed without difficulty.

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