The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... existence ; and as the structure is invariably the same in the same species , we may conclude that the natural habits are equally invariable . It is this consideration that will at once shew us the absurdity of imagining that the ...
... existence ; and as the structure is invariably the same in the same species , we may conclude that the natural habits are equally invariable . It is this consideration that will at once shew us the absurdity of imagining that the ...
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... existence in as great perfection of content as the squirrel which leaps from tree to tree , or the wild horse which gallops over boundless plains in search of the greenest pastures . It seems agreed that a large elephant weighs from six ...
... existence in as great perfection of content as the squirrel which leaps from tree to tree , or the wild horse which gallops over boundless plains in search of the greenest pastures . It seems agreed that a large elephant weighs from six ...
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... existence disputed . This is the ligament of the nape , called by butchers the pax - wax ; and the tough , strong , tendinous sub- stance of which it is composed must be familiar to every one who has ever carved a neck of veal , and ...
... existence disputed . This is the ligament of the nape , called by butchers the pax - wax ; and the tough , strong , tendinous sub- stance of which it is composed must be familiar to every one who has ever carved a neck of veal , and ...
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... existence . His trunk is the in- strument by which he collects his liquid sustenance . By drawing in his breath he receives the necessary supply into the channels of his trunk , and , when he pleases , discharges it into his mouth ...
... existence . His trunk is the in- strument by which he collects his liquid sustenance . By drawing in his breath he receives the necessary supply into the channels of his trunk , and , when he pleases , discharges it into his mouth ...
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... existence of the elephant in a state of nature ; for the quantity of food which a herd of elephants con- sume renders it necessary that they should be con- stantly moving from place to place . The elephant crosses a stream in two ways ...
... existence of the elephant in a state of nature ; for the quantity of food which a herd of elephants con- sume renders it necessary that they should be con- stantly moving from place to place . The elephant crosses a stream in two ways ...
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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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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...