The Book of Nature, 第 2 巻Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 |
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... meet with a singular decoy for entrapping smaller fishes as its prey . This species , 1. piscatorius , which is about seven feet long , and inhabits most European seas , lurks behind sand - hills or heaps of stone , and throwing over ...
... meet with a singular decoy for entrapping smaller fishes as its prey . This species , 1. piscatorius , which is about seven feet long , and inhabits most European seas , lurks behind sand - hills or heaps of stone , and throwing over ...
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... meet it , I shall take leave now , as I have on former occasions , to render AMPHIBIALS . The term , indeed , whether regarded as Greek or English , is not very strictly precise in its present application ; for it intimates an intention ...
... meet it , I shall take leave now , as I have on former occasions , to render AMPHIBIALS . The term , indeed , whether regarded as Greek or English , is not very strictly precise in its present application ; for it intimates an intention ...
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... meet with whole tribes of barbarians , who are capable of handling the most poisonous of these amphi- bials , and of eating them up alive from head to tail , without the smallest injury : even the bite itself producing no mischief ...
... meet with whole tribes of barbarians , who are capable of handling the most poisonous of these amphi- bials , and of eating them up alive from head to tail , without the smallest injury : even the bite itself producing no mischief ...
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... meet with individuals among them that measure from six feet seven to six feet ten : compared with these , the Laplanders and Eskimaux are real dwarfs ; their stature seldom reaching five feet , and being more commonly only four ...
... meet with individuals among them that measure from six feet seven to six feet ten : compared with these , the Laplanders and Eskimaux are real dwarfs ; their stature seldom reaching five feet , and being more commonly only four ...
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... meet with a marked distinc- tion , a characteristic outline that can never be mistaken , except in the few anomalies already adverted to , and which belong to almost every general rule ; or in instances in which we can obviously trace ...
... meet with a marked distinc- tion , a characteristic outline that can never be mistaken , except in the few anomalies already adverted to , and which belong to almost every general rule ; or in instances in which we can obviously trace ...
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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.