A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas ...
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A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas ...
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Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
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London :: Printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst ...,
1657.
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Bees -- Early works to 1800.
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"A theatre of politicall flying-insects wherein especially the nature, the vvorth, the vvork, the wonder, and the manner of right-ordering of the bee, is discovered and described : together with discourses, historical, and observations physical concerning them : and in a second part are annexed meditations, and observations theological and moral, in three centuries upon that subject / by Samuel Purchas ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56300.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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LIII.
We must be diligent in our calling, not like the sluggard, or the Drone in the hive, but like the labouring Bee, taking the time while time is, whilst the Sunne shineth making hay: which condemneth such, that though they will not be altoge∣ther without a calling, nay more then that will sanctifie it by the word and prayer evening and morning, yet will be negli∣gent in it, either too late at it, lying in their beds, turning them with the sluggard (like the doore on the hinges) folding their hands, and crying yet a little more sleepe, or else tatlers in their businesse (omitting many dayes) with a shew of walking in their calling, but in truth nothing lesse.