The Naturalist, Volumen1Pierce and Parker, and Carter and Hendee, 1831 |
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... considerable expense . From the above considerations , it is the object of the editor of this work , to select the most useful and interesting topics of Natural History , to express them in plain and intelligible language , at a price ...
... considerable expense . From the above considerations , it is the object of the editor of this work , to select the most useful and interesting topics of Natural History , to express them in plain and intelligible language , at a price ...
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... considerable length of time , sufficient to cause water to boil , or meat to roast , without material injury . Thus man can support all possible degrees of atmospherical heat and cold ; he has also an equal power of supporting varieties ...
... considerable length of time , sufficient to cause water to boil , or meat to roast , without material injury . Thus man can support all possible degrees of atmospherical heat and cold ; he has also an equal power of supporting varieties ...
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... considerable age . Although it bears at the age of three or four years plentifully , it is said that vine- yards improve in quality till they are fifty years old . Pliny mentions a vine which had attained the age of six hundred years ...
... considerable age . Although it bears at the age of three or four years plentifully , it is said that vine- yards improve in quality till they are fifty years old . Pliny mentions a vine which had attained the age of six hundred years ...
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... considerably complicated ; much more so than that of the articulated division . The blood is dark colored or blue ... considerable irritability ; the naked skin is very sensible and furnished with a liquid humor which issues from its ...
... considerably complicated ; much more so than that of the articulated division . The blood is dark colored or blue ... considerable irritability ; the naked skin is very sensible and furnished with a liquid humor which issues from its ...
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... considerably thicker than in Europeans , and black hair , are universal . Mr. Turner informs us , that the people of Thibet have invariably black hair , small black eyes with long pointed cor- ners , as if extended by artificial means ...
... considerably thicker than in Europeans , and black hair , are universal . Mr. Turner informs us , that the people of Thibet have invariably black hair , small black eyes with long pointed cor- ners , as if extended by artificial means ...
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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.