Leaves from the Note Book of a NaturalistJ. W. Parker and son, 1852 - Всего страниц: 413 |
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... Camel - Its wonderful structure- Its adaptation to its state of life - Its noiseless step - The Baggage - Camel - Altered form of its dorsal vertebræ ― The Dromedary - Its swiftness compared to that of the high- mettled racer - A ...
... Camel - Its wonderful structure- Its adaptation to its state of life - Its noiseless step - The Baggage - Camel - Altered form of its dorsal vertebræ ― The Dromedary - Its swiftness compared to that of the high- mettled racer - A ...
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... camels and selling them - was trifling , as they only gave him one hundred stripes , and with a far less terrific weapon . ' In ancient history the hippopotamus figures under many shapes ; some giving it the mane of a horse and the ...
... camels and selling them - was trifling , as they only gave him one hundred stripes , and with a far less terrific weapon . ' In ancient history the hippopotamus figures under many shapes ; some giving it the mane of a horse and the ...
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... camel presents one of the most complete instances of design with relation to human wants . There is not a part of its structure , from the bony framework of the skeleton to the external hair of its coat , that could be omitted without ...
... camel presents one of the most complete instances of design with relation to human wants . There is not a part of its structure , from the bony framework of the skeleton to the external hair of its coat , that could be omitted without ...
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... camel , or investigate its internal structure , we find the most unmistakable evidence of adaptation to that state . of life to which it has pleased the great Author of its being to call it . Born for the desert , the callosities pre ...
... camel , or investigate its internal structure , we find the most unmistakable evidence of adaptation to that state . of life to which it has pleased the great Author of its being to call it . Born for the desert , the callosities pre ...
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... camels up a rocky steep , and accounts for the silence because their feet are as soft as sponge or leather . The structure of his stomach enables the camel to digest the coarsest vegetable tissues , and he even prefers such plants as a ...
... camels up a rocky steep , and accounts for the silence because their feet are as soft as sponge or leather . The structure of his stomach enables the camel to digest the coarsest vegetable tissues , and he even prefers such plants as a ...
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Стр. 25 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Стр. 110 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Стр. 215 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Стр. 265 - What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story...
Стр. 191 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Стр. 359 - Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. DIFFUGIMUS visu exsangues : illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt; et primum parva duorum Corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque Implicat , et miseros morsu depascitur artus. Post ipsum , auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem Corripiunt , spirisque ligant ingentibus : et jam Bis medium amplexi , bis collo squamea circum Terga dati , superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Стр. 205 - And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded : and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Стр. 160 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Стр. 110 - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed : and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies ; and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
Стр. 90 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below, — the snow-white Gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy...