A Compendium of Zoology,: Being a Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals. Confirmed by Actual and Personal Observations, with Original Remarks, and Interesting Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors; to which is Subjoined an Appendix, on Allegorical and Fabulous Animals. The Whole Illustrated by Accurate Figures, Engraved on Wood..Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1818 - Всего страниц: 366 |
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... eyes of all readers indiscriminately . Yet that natural bent , which leads every one towards knowledge , the dread of ignorance , and the pruriency of investigation , called aloud for a substitute ; and in this view the Description of ...
... eyes of all readers indiscriminately . Yet that natural bent , which leads every one towards knowledge , the dread of ignorance , and the pruriency of investigation , called aloud for a substitute ; and in this view the Description of ...
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... eyes ; for he hears the rumbling noise of thunder , and sees , with tremor , the forked lightnings rend the clouds in the middle of winter ; hè sees the Sun rise at night ; the snow fall in the heat of summer ; and thousands of ...
... eyes ; for he hears the rumbling noise of thunder , and sees , with tremor , the forked lightnings rend the clouds in the middle of winter ; hè sees the Sun rise at night ; the snow fall in the heat of summer ; and thousands of ...
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... eyes on one side , from the progressive and long habit of lying flat on the ooze , at the bottom of the sea . -We differ entirely from these system - makers ; and although such names as Buffon , la Cépède , and several others , stand ...
... eyes on one side , from the progressive and long habit of lying flat on the ooze , at the bottom of the sea . -We differ entirely from these system - makers ; and although such names as Buffon , la Cépède , and several others , stand ...
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... eye , and from the sight of the un- thinking ; and have developed , as far as it lay in our power , that most admirable impartiality of Provi- dence toward the creatures , in the bountiful reparti- tion of his gifts . We have carefully ...
... eye , and from the sight of the un- thinking ; and have developed , as far as it lay in our power , that most admirable impartiality of Provi- dence toward the creatures , in the bountiful reparti- tion of his gifts . We have carefully ...
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... : his head is large and strong ; his nose thick ; his mouth wide , and armed with numerous and strong teeth ; his eyes are red , fiery , quick , and hollow : each of B his fore feet has five distinct claws , and the. COMPENDIUM.
... : his head is large and strong ; his nose thick ; his mouth wide , and armed with numerous and strong teeth ; his eyes are red , fiery , quick , and hollow : each of B his fore feet has five distinct claws , and the. COMPENDIUM.
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Стр. 233 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Стр. 14 - Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round; His chine is double; starting, with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow: He bears his rider headlong on the foe.
Стр. 293 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Стр. 357 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Стр. 129 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding. What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
Стр. 207 - Tempest the ocean : there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Стр. 125 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Стр. 80 - The full-grown condor measures, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, from...
Стр. 221 - All the magistrates round flocked hither to view this sight, whose arrival, and prolonged stay, was an additional expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed. It was thought proper, therefore, to remove the occasion of this concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin.
Стр. 246 - Suabia, with a brazen ring attached to it, on which were these words in Greek characters : — " I am the fish which was first of all put into this lake by the hands of the Governor of the Universe, Frederick the Second, the 5th of October 1230.