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TVic lana of tlie attclabi, accoriliiig to fonie wi iters, ai*e To this p\irpnrc it is f^id, that Hr Ifaac Newton, wlien he was 



formflied with fix feet; are very fat, of a whitiiTi coloiir, complimented upon the force of genius wliicli had made fuch 



■and have an annnlated body. The head it. proteifted by a improvements in mathematics and natural philoTophy, made 



hard fcaly covering, and the month furniHied with two very this reply, no lefs jndicious than modeft ; "that, if he had 



ilicngjaws, with which it does great mifchief. It attacks made any improvements in thofe fciences, it was owing more 



the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, and even the ftalks and to patient attention,' than to any other talent." As it is 



roots of different plants ; but mofl of the fpecies penetrate very helpful to memory, if not efiential to it, that the per- 



into the plant* and fubfiil entirely on the parenchymous or ception of the idea which we wifh to remember fhould remain 



fpongy parts within. Preparatory to the transformation to in the mind for a certain fpace of time, and (liould be con- 



ilky web, and others 

 in which thev remain 



templated by itfclf exclufively of every thing elfe, we can be 

 at no lofs to account for the aflillancc which the memory 

 derives from attention, which confifts partly, if not entirely, 

 in the effort of the mind, to detain the idea or the ptriep- 

 tion, and to exclude the other objcfts that folicit its notice, 

 Gnielin, as before obferved, defcribes thirty four fpecies Hence it happens that in foHtnde, or the ililnefs of the 



the pupa ilate, fomc fpecies fpin a 



•form a little ball of a very folid kind 



during the fecond ihitc. The perfcft infefts inhabit the 



fame plants as the larva, but are deemed lefs injurious to 



■them 



of this genus : thefe are coryli, avellanx, bicolor, dcnigratus, 

 -erythropterus, bipuftulatus, gemmatus, indicus, curculio- 

 •noides, furinamenfis, pennfylvanicus, melanuros, angulatus, 

 ruticoHis, pubefccns, bctula>, mutillarius, dubins, ichneunio- 

 nius, formicarius, fphageus, fexguttatus, quadrimaculatus, 

 •uninfafciatus, oClopunCtatus, tricolor, bifalciatus, fipylus, 



night, when the attention is undiverted and nndiflrafted by 

 furrounding objefts, thi. imprefllon made by any one objeA 

 is (Ironger and deeper: and the memory becomes more re- 

 tentive. When one faculty of ttie mind is intenfely engag- 

 ed about any objeft, the other faculties are laid, as it were, 

 fall afleep ; hence a man fees not what is before his eyes. 



■ammios, apiarius, cyaneus, crabroniformis, ceramboides, when his mind is occupied about other things. In the tu- 



bupreftoides ; which lee refpeftively. mult of a battle, a man may be fliot through the body with- 



Oif. A few of the figures in the third entomological out knowing any thing of the matter, till he difcovers it by 



plate of this work having been inadvertently mlfplaced, the the lofs of blood or cf flrength. The moll acute fenfation 



■jnfeft infcribed g. 15. nttelabus will be found to belong to of pain may be deadened if the attention be vigoroufly di- 



another genus, and that marked g. 13. bruchits being one refted to another objeft. The anecdote relating to the at- 



oi x\\e Umn'xza atleliibi, may ferve to illuftrate this genus, tention of Archimedes at the ficge of Syracufc is well 



till another figure can be given. known. (See Archimedes.) When there is no particular 



ATTELEBUSSA,in Ancient Geography, an iflandin the obj -cl that draws away our attention, there is a defultorinefs 



Mediterranean fea, on the coafl of Lycia. Ptolemy calls of thought in man, and in fome more than in others, which 



it Atclebufa, and places it on the coafl of Painphylia. 

 Plinv. 



ATTELLANjE. See Atellan^e. 



ATTENA, in Aitclertt Geop-phy, a town of Ethiopia, 

 belov/ Egypt. Pliny. 



ATTENBY, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 ifland of Oeland. 



ATTENDANT, or Attendent, in a general fenfe. 

 See Assistant, Rftinue, and Satellites. 



Attendant, Atlendais, in Laiu, fignifics one that owes 

 duty, or fervice to another, or depends in fome manner 

 ■upon him. 



Where the wife is endowed of lands by guardian, fhe 

 ffliall be attendant on the guardian, and on the heir at his 

 full age. 



ATTENDORN, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the archbilliopric of Cologne, and duchy of Wcflphalia, 

 feated on the river Bigge, and feven leagues fouth of 

 Arenfberjr. 



ATTENHOVE, a town of Brabant, one league north- 

 eall of Landin. 



ATTENTION, Attentio, compounded of aei, to, 

 and t;nilo, I ft retch, a due application of the ear, or the 

 mind, to any thing faidor done, in order to acquire a know- 

 ledge of it. 



Attention of mind, is not properly an aft of the undcr- 

 ftanding, but rather of the will, by which it calls the undcr- 

 flanding from the confideration of other objefts, and direfts 

 it to the thing in hand. Neverthclefs, our attention is not 

 always voluntary : an interefting objtft feizes, and fixes it 

 beyond all power of control. 



It is by tlie attention that is given to any objeft of fenfe 

 or irtelleft, that we form a diftinft notion of It, or difcover 

 its nature, its attributes, or its relations : and fo great indeed 



makes it very difficult to give that fixed attention to import- 

 ant objefts which reafon requires. A habit of attention 

 may be acquired by praftice ; and the fludy of the mathe- 

 matical Icienccs has a peculiar aptitude to direft and fix it. 

 Attention is one of thoie operations of the mind, which, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Reid's ditlribution (Effays, p. 78.), belong to 

 the clafs of thofe that are voluntary. 



Attention, in refpeft of hearing, is the ftrctching or 

 flraining of the membrava tympant, fo as to make it more fuf- 

 ceptible of founds, and better prepared to catch even a fee- 

 ble agitation of the air. Or it is the adjniling the tenfion 

 of that membrane to the degree of loudnefs or lownefs of 

 the found to which we are attentive. 



" Sounds," fays the celebrated Bacon in his Natural 

 Hiftory, " are meliorated by the intenfion of the fenfe, 

 where the common fenfe is collefted mofl to the particu- 

 lar fenfe of hearing, and the fight fufpended. Therefore 

 founds are fweeter, as well as greater, in the night than in 

 the day ; and I fuppofe they are fweeter to blind men than 

 toothers ; and it is manifeil, that between flceping and wak- 

 ing, when all the fenfes are blind and fufpended ; mulic is 

 far fsveeter than when one is fiiUv waken." 



ATTENDANTS, in Meclicine. This tei-m is applied 

 to thofe mtdicines which are fuppofed fo poffefs the power 

 of relforing the concreted parts of a fluid to the fam.e (late 

 of fluidity which they poireffed before concretion. It is 

 nearly fynonymoiis with refolvtnt. A very reafonable doubt 

 has been entertained, whether there is properly any fuch at- 

 tenuating power refiding in any medicine, independent ei- 

 ther of mere dilution, or elfe of the ftimulant property. 

 The idea, however, of the operation of attenuav.ts is tlie 

 following : — many of the older phyficians, and after them 

 the Boerhaavlans, fuppoied obftruftion in the circulating 

 fydem to be produced by the red blood, or a thinner im- 

 is the effeft of attention, that, without it, it is impoffible to pervious humour joined with it, ftagnating in their proper 

 acquire or retain a diftiniS notion of any objcft of thought, -veflek, or wedged into other vtffeb of a fmalier diameter 



6 than 



