The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects, Volumen2Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... human hands . The affection of this poor animal for her keeper was very great . The man who had the charge of her in 1828 , when we saw her , had attended her for five years , having succeeded another who had been with her eight or ten ...
... human hands . The affection of this poor animal for her keeper was very great . The man who had the charge of her in 1828 , when we saw her , had attended her for five years , having succeeded another who had been with her eight or ten ...
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... human beings , we have several remarkable instances . An elephant is recorded to have saluted Domitian : and Martial has alluded to the circumstance in a nauseously flattering epigram , which intimates that the creature paid this homage ...
... human beings , we have several remarkable instances . An elephant is recorded to have saluted Domitian : and Martial has alluded to the circumstance in a nauseously flattering epigram , which intimates that the creature paid this homage ...
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... human pride , is as worthless as that which Augustus received upon his triumphal entry into Rome , after the battle of Actium , when the parrots from the windows cried out " Honour and victory to Cæsar . " The con- queror gave enormous ...
... human pride , is as worthless as that which Augustus received upon his triumphal entry into Rome , after the battle of Actium , when the parrots from the windows cried out " Honour and victory to Cæsar . " The con- queror gave enormous ...
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... humanity , was induced in them . Ælian argues from this , that the beast is of a generous and noble disposition . The same principle , we apprehend , may be applied to the education of nearly all quadrupeds . The horse is made vicious ...
... humanity , was induced in them . Ælian argues from this , that the beast is of a generous and noble disposition . The same principle , we apprehend , may be applied to the education of nearly all quadrupeds . The horse is made vicious ...
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... human race . But with or without man he would have remained the same as he is now . He does not build , because he is not organised for building ; the beaver is an architect , because the faculty of building is necessary for his ...
... human race . But with or without man he would have remained the same as he is now . He does not build , because he is not organised for building ; the beaver is an architect , because the faculty of building is necessary for his ...
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The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects.. James Rennie Vista completa - 1831 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 322 - Syria was thy merchant By reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making : They occupied in thy fairs With emeralds, purple, and broidered work, And fine linen, and coral and agate.
Página 322 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Página 387 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That He who made it and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Página 72 - THE first shall be of the elephant, whereof there generally passeth an opinion it hath no joints; and this absurdity is seconded with another, that being unable to lie down it sleepeth against a tree; which the hunters observing, do saw it almost asunder, whereon the beast relying, by the fall of the tree falls also down itself, and is able to rise no more.
Página 186 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 45 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Página 288 - ... of the amphitheatre. The wealth of Asia, the arms and ensigns of so many conquered nations, and the magnificent plate and wardrobe of the Syrian queen, were disposed in exact symmetry or artful disorder. The ambassadors of the most remote parts of the earth, of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, Bactriana, India, and China, all remarkable by their rich or singular dresses, displayed the fame and power of the Roman emperor, who exposed likewise to the public view the presents that he had received, and...
Página 315 - Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia.
Página 170 - ... mikdembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers in attendance : and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference, I should have been apt to be carried away by the similar flights of imagination as inspire most of the Indian poets, when they represent the elephants as conveying so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze.
Página 236 - Tartars, which remained firm, making no movement, but suffering them to approach their entrenchments. They then rushed out with great spirit and the utmost eagerness to engage; but it was soon found that the Tartar horses, unused to the sight of such huge animals, with their castles, were terrified, and wheeling about endeavoured to fly; nor could their riders by any exertions restrain them, whilst the king, with the whole of his forces, was every moment gaining ground. As soon as the prudent commander...