The Book of Nature, 第 2 巻Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 |
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... become extinct , and are only to be found in a state of petrifaction . The sur- rounding spines form an admirable coat of mail when perfect ; but they are generally broken off from the shell when it is picked up empty on our own coasts ...
... become extinct , and are only to be found in a state of petrifaction . The sur- rounding spines form an admirable coat of mail when perfect ; but they are generally broken off from the shell when it is picked up empty on our own coasts ...
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... become , in some future period , the seat of universal dominion , the emporium of taste and elegance , of virtue and the sciences . So the fairest fields of Rome were formed out of the putrid Pontine marshes , and England has become ...
... become , in some future period , the seat of universal dominion , the emporium of taste and elegance , of virtue and the sciences . So the fairest fields of Rome were formed out of the putrid Pontine marshes , and England has become ...
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... become dry ; by which means it effectually avoids the jaws of such predatory fishes as are in pursuit of it . But unhappily it is often seized at the same time by the talons of ospreys , sea - gulls , or some other rapacious birds that ...
... become dry ; by which means it effectually avoids the jaws of such predatory fishes as are in pursuit of it . But unhappily it is often seized at the same time by the talons of ospreys , sea - gulls , or some other rapacious birds that ...
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... become the means of throw- ing an overcharge of bile into the circulation . Hence the sallow and olive hue of many who unduly addict themselves to vinous potation , and who at the same time make use of but little exercise . And hence ...
... become the means of throw- ing an overcharge of bile into the circulation . Hence the sallow and olive hue of many who unduly addict themselves to vinous potation , and who at the same time make use of but little exercise . And hence ...
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... become wholly black ; and are said to become so occasionally in the course of a single night . So the male kestrel , from being barred on the tail feathers , becomes wholly ash- coloured except at the end ; and the heron , gull , and ...
... become wholly black ; and are said to become so occasionally in the course of a single night . So the male kestrel , from being barred on the tail feathers , becomes wholly ash- coloured except at the end ; and the heron , gull , and ...
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274 ページ - But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
391 ページ - Now the storm begins to lower (Haste, the loom of Hell prepare), Iron-sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Glittering lances are the loom, Where the dusky warp we strain, Weaving many a soldier's doom, Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane.
164 ページ - I CLIMB'D the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn, Lakes and mountains beneath me gleam'd misty and wide ; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting around me the echoes replied.
392 ページ - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.
431 ページ - But see ! each Muse in Leo's golden days Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays ; Rome's ancient genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then sculpture and her sister arts revive ; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung...
141 ページ - Stays till we call, and then not often near; But honest instinct comes a volunteer, Sure never to o'ershoot, but just to hit; While still too wide or short is human wit; Sure by quick nature happiness to gain, Which heavier reason labours at in vain.
304 ページ - And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. 38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead...
264 ページ - As all natural cries," says he, " even though modulated by music, are from the throat and larynx, or knot of the throat, with little or no operation of the organs of the mouth, it is natural to suppose that the first languages were, for the greater part, spoken...
423 ページ - The ignorance of the clergy respecting religion was as gross as the dissoluteness of their morals. Even bishops were not ashamed to confess that they were unacquainted with the canon of their faith, and had never read any part of the sacred Scriptures, except what they met with in their missals.t Under such masters the people perished for lack of knowledge.
68 ページ - ... feet long and wide. Here the prodigious quantity of animal earth, the vast number of teeth, jaws, and other bones, and the heavy grouping of the stalactites, produced so dismal an appearance, as to lead Esper to speak of it as a fit temple for a god of the dead.