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... feet high . It is a native of America , and is frequently used for smoking , under the name Orinoco tobacco ; it is ... feet wide at top , and two feet six inches at bottom , with sloping sides to keep the earth up ; the intervals are ...
... feet high . It is a native of America , and is frequently used for smoking , under the name Orinoco tobacco ; it is ... feet wide at top , and two feet six inches at bottom , with sloping sides to keep the earth up ; the intervals are ...
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... feet by , 24 in height , or , for the most part more carefully and better executed than including its covering , 27 feet . At each angle is a large the Egyptian paintings , they are equally curious , inasmuch acroterium presenting two ...
... feet by , 24 in height , or , for the most part more carefully and better executed than including its covering , 27 feet . At each angle is a large the Egyptian paintings , they are equally curious , inasmuch acroterium presenting two ...
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... feet ( des pattes en moignon ) : —this would recall the condition of those feet , namely , that they are short , unshapely , though nearly of equal length , with toes but little distinct , nearly equal , immoveable , united by a thick ...
... feet ( des pattes en moignon ) : —this would recall the condition of those feet , namely , that they are short , unshapely , though nearly of equal length , with toes but little distinct , nearly equal , immoveable , united by a thick ...
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... Feet each with five toes , the posterior ones with four nails only ; carapace of a single piece ; sternum moveable anteriorly . This genus is the only Land Box Tortoise ; but an ana- logue ( Sternotherus ) occurs among the Marsh ...
... Feet each with five toes , the posterior ones with four nails only ; carapace of a single piece ; sternum moveable anteriorly . This genus is the only Land Box Tortoise ; but an ana- logue ( Sternotherus ) occurs among the Marsh ...
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... Feet with five toes , the posterior with four claws only ; plastron wide , oval , attached to the buckler by a cartilage , moveable before and behind on the same transversal mesial hinge , furnished with twelve plates ; twenty - five ...
... Feet with five toes , the posterior with four claws only ; plastron wide , oval , attached to the buckler by a cartilage , moveable before and behind on the same transversal mesial hinge , furnished with twelve plates ; twenty - five ...
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Стр. 105 - Sir, he was the delight and ornament of this House, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor any country, a man of a more pointed and finished wit ; and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment.
Стр. 71 - The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking close behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly, the instant I passed, it would draw in its head and legs, and uttering a deep hiss fall to the ground with a heavy sound, as if struck dead.
Стр. 70 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but, as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the...
Стр. 105 - For failings he had undoubtedly - many of us remember them; we are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for Fame; a passion which is 1 There is an implicit contrast here with Burke's own parliamentary style and how Parliament sometimes received it. the instinct of all great souls.
Стр. 70 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Стр. 175 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Стр. 71 - ... a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or bellowing, which, it is said, can be heard at the distance of more than a hundred yards. The female never uses her voice, and the male only at these times; so that when the people hear this noise, they know that the two are together.
Стр. 197 - Seal: being a Tory in principle, he undertook to manage that party, provided he was furnished with such sums of money as might purchase some votes ; and by him began the practice of buying off men, in which hitherto the King had kept to stricter rules.
Стр. 31 - I perceive no reason why men of different religious persuasions may not sit upon the same bench, deliberate in the same council, or fight in the same ranks, as well as men of various or opposite opinions upon any controverted topic of natural philosophy, history, or ethics.
Стр. 71 - It is, however, certain, that tortoises can subsist even on those islands where there is no other water than what falls during a few rainy days in the year.