The Bees; A Poem, in Four Books; With Notes, Moral, Political, and Philosophical (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ...trees was daily occupied by a small number of bees; but, the swarm from that stock being lodged in another hive, the tree was wholly deserted. This decided preference to a hive, when offered them, to a place previously chosen by themselves, Mr. KNIgHT ascribes to an acquired habit, produced by domestication, and their consequent dependence upon man for providing them a residence, extending hereditarily from the parents to their offspring. _, j '; 1--. / iM I.-: .: ..).:, ', /t s .-TW: NOTE X. L. 3S9. Thus Gallic Charles with deep-dissembled art Veils the dark venom of his vengeful Itearl--THE well-known Massacre of the Protestants at Paris, on St. Bartholomew's1 Day, 1572, by Charles IX. under the influence of his perfidious and inhuman mother, hath fixed an indelible stain on the annals of France, only to be equalled by the atrocities of the infernal Robespierre. Lulled into fatal confidence, the Hogoftot Chiefs went chearfnlly to assist at the nuptials of the young King of Navarre with the Sister of the French Monarch; which they fondly looked to as the final termination of all religious animosities. The ringing of a bell was the signal, Charles led the way in person, and the Catholic chizens zealously seconded the fury of the soldiery, imbruing their hands in the blood of their neighbours, of their companions, and even of their relations Persons of every age, sex and condition, suspected of adhering to the reformed opinions, were involved in one undistinguished ruin. In Paris alone above five hundred gentlemen, including the brave and amiable Coligxi, were murdered, together with ten thousand persons of inferior rank; and upwards of sixty thousand in different parts of the kingdom-. A striking picture of the incredible horror excited...