The Naturalist, Volumen1Pierce and Parker, and Carter and Hendee, 1831 |
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... Climate , Influence of on Vegetation , 375 Pear , 252 Coffee , 367 Platina , 32 Copper , 254 Quicksilver , 159 Cotton , 336 Quince , 309 Cranberry , 312 Rose , 181 Dog , 232 Silk Worms , 51,313 Eagle , Bald , 359 Management of , 90 ...
... Climate , Influence of on Vegetation , 375 Pear , 252 Coffee , 367 Platina , 32 Copper , 254 Quicksilver , 159 Cotton , 336 Quince , 309 Cranberry , 312 Rose , 181 Dog , 232 Silk Worms , 51,313 Eagle , Bald , 359 Management of , 90 ...
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... climates , can resist such cold as mentioned above without injury , by taking suffi- cient exercise . The Danes have lived in Greenland in 720 N. latitude ; and the Dutch , under Heemskerk , wintered at Nova Zembla in 76 ° N. latitude ...
... climates , can resist such cold as mentioned above without injury , by taking suffi- cient exercise . The Danes have lived in Greenland in 720 N. latitude ; and the Dutch , under Heemskerk , wintered at Nova Zembla in 76 ° N. latitude ...
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... climate , soil and situation , it follows of necessity , that he must be omnivorous , that is , capable of de ... climates the most suitable kind of nourishment ; here , accordingly , a vege- table diet is found most grateful and ...
... climate , soil and situation , it follows of necessity , that he must be omnivorous , that is , capable of de ... climates the most suitable kind of nourishment ; here , accordingly , a vege- table diet is found most grateful and ...
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... climates , if he did not possess the most enduring and flexible corporeal frame . The lower animals , in general , have no defence against the evils of a new climate , but for the force of nature . The arts of human ingenuity furnish a ...
... climates , if he did not possess the most enduring and flexible corporeal frame . The lower animals , in general , have no defence against the evils of a new climate , but for the force of nature . The arts of human ingenuity furnish a ...
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... imputed to climate ; and other pecu- liarities , as the fine form of the American Indians , or the flat heads of the tribes among the Rocky Mountains , to the treat- ment of their infants . But there are still other 10 Man .
... imputed to climate ; and other pecu- liarities , as the fine form of the American Indians , or the flat heads of the tribes among the Rocky Mountains , to the treat- ment of their infants . But there are still other 10 Man .
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Página 29 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall : the archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob...
Página 23 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Página 360 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Página 77 - Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities see; There towns aerial on the waving tree.
Página 360 - He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from a very high northern latitude to the borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea, and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers. Formed by nature for braving the severest cold ; feeding equally...
Página 348 - The wool came from the East Indies to London; from London it went to Lancashire, where it was manufactured into yarn; from Manchester it was sent to Paisley, where it was woven; it was sent to Ayrshire next, where it was tamboured; it...
Página 155 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed.
Página 266 - The jockeys, inspired with the thoughts of applause and the hopes of victory, clap spurs to their willing horses, brandish their whips, and cheer them with their cries.
Página 361 - The unencumbered eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish. The eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Página 164 - For they see not very well in the Sun, poring in the clearest Day; their Eyes being but weak, and running with Water if the Sun shine towards them; so that in the Day-time they care not to go abroad, unless it be a cloudy dark Day.