The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... equally contemptible . The exhibition of the elephant at the Adelphi Theatre , however it may have been exceeded by the feats of the elephants of antiquity , was exceedingly curious and instructive . The animal took part in the scene ...
... equally contemptible . The exhibition of the elephant at the Adelphi Theatre , however it may have been exceeded by the feats of the elephants of antiquity , was exceedingly curious and instructive . The animal took part in the scene ...
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... equally invariable . It is this consideration that will at once shew us the absurdity of imagining that the natural habits of animals are changed by accident or time . Buffon says , " the elephant , like the beaver , loves the society ...
... equally invariable . It is this consideration that will at once shew us the absurdity of imagining that the natural habits of animals are changed by accident or time . Buffon says , " the elephant , like the beaver , loves the society ...
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... equally been struck with its astonishing union of flexibility and strength . Cicero calls it , by a bold figure of speech , " the elephant's hand ; " - Lucretius , even more expressively , describes it by the word " angui- manus , the ...
... equally been struck with its astonishing union of flexibility and strength . Cicero calls it , by a bold figure of speech , " the elephant's hand ; " - Lucretius , even more expressively , describes it by the word " angui- manus , the ...
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... equally available in the collection of his daily sup- plies . If he meet with long herbage , he twists his trunk spirally round the roots and crops them off . The bundle which he gathers is then held between what. THE ELEPHANT . 57 ...
... equally available in the collection of his daily sup- plies . If he meet with long herbage , he twists his trunk spirally round the roots and crops them off . The bundle which he gathers is then held between what. THE ELEPHANT . 57 ...
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... equally sensitive organ of hearing , we can understand why the elephant so rarely treads upon surfaces which are unable to sup- port him - why he equally avoids the pitfall and the slough - why , although he delights in water , and ...
... equally sensitive organ of hearing , we can understand why the elephant so rarely treads upon surfaces which are unable to sup- port him - why he equally avoids the pitfall and the slough - why , although he delights in water , and ...
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The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects.. James Rennie Vista completa - 1829 |
The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects.. James Rennie Vista completa - 1830 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 318 - 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 318 - 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 383 - 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 66 - 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 182 - 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 39 - 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 205 - Makkah, and would have entered it, the elephant on which he rode, which was a very large one, and named Mahmud, refused to advance any nigher to the town, but knelt down whenever they endeavoured to force him that way, though he would rise and march briskly enough if they turned him towards any other quarter : and while matters were in this posture, on a sudden a large flock of birds, like swallows, came flying from the sea-coast, every one of which carried three stones, one in each foot, and one...
Página 76 - Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flinys The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with wavey motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to and fro.
Página 311 - 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 97 - ... that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to the top, if the animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular succession under his feet. Permission having been obtained from the...