Zoological RecreationsHenry Colburn, 1847 - Всего страниц: 380 |
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... animal is possessed of as far as regards the wellbeing of itself and * This resolution requires great self - control . There is hardly an owl in the five quarters of the world - for Australia must now be considered the fifth- about ...
... animal is possessed of as far as regards the wellbeing of itself and * This resolution requires great self - control . There is hardly an owl in the five quarters of the world - for Australia must now be considered the fifth- about ...
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... animal creation . This species is fast diminishing before the colonist . Audubon remarks that about five - and - twenty years ago , " They could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the Ohio as the great Kenhawa , the Scioto ...
... animal creation . This species is fast diminishing before the colonist . Audubon remarks that about five - and - twenty years ago , " They could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the Ohio as the great Kenhawa , the Scioto ...
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... animal life . The females calmly look on and await the event of the struggle which is to be settled by the law of the strongest , who reaps the reward of his prowess . Thus a sturdy progeny is secured , and Nature does all in her power ...
... animal life . The females calmly look on and await the event of the struggle which is to be settled by the law of the strongest , who reaps the reward of his prowess . Thus a sturdy progeny is secured , and Nature does all in her power ...
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... animal went off with great rapidity , and , as it approached the turkey , I saw , with surprise , that the latter paid little attention . Juno was on the point of seizing it , when she suddenly stopped , and turned her head towards me ...
... animal went off with great rapidity , and , as it approached the turkey , I saw , with surprise , that the latter paid little attention . Juno was on the point of seizing it , when she suddenly stopped , and turned her head towards me ...
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... animal mechanism . The cylindrical tracheal tube passes down the neck , and then descends between the forks of the merry- thought to the level of the keel of the breast - bone , which is double ; and this windpipe , after traversing ...
... animal mechanism . The cylindrical tracheal tube passes down the neck , and then descends between the forks of the merry- thought to the level of the keel of the breast - bone , which is double ; and this windpipe , after traversing ...
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Стр. 303 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Стр. 303 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Стр. 69 - The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Стр. 89 - Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Стр. 305 - 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. 138 - Through swords, through seas, whither she would ride. Do but look on her eyes, they do light All that Love's world compriseth ! Do but look on her hair, it is bright As Love's...
Стр. 83 - There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Стр. 143 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 84 - Alitis in parvae subitam collecta figuram, Quae quondam in bustis aut culminibus desertis Nocte sedens, serum canit importuna per umbras ; Hanc versa in faciem, Turni se pestis ob ora 865 Fertque refertque sonans, clipeumque everberat alis.
Стр. 88 - Dame. Yes, I have brought, to help our vows, Horned poppy, cypress boughs, The fig-tree wild that grows on tombs, And juice that from the larch-tree comes, The basilisk's blood, and the viper's skin : And now our orgies let us begin.