The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, and Biography ...Wm. S. Orr and Company, 1838 |
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... common English name whereby various species of beetles are called , evidently adopted from the German Kafer , which is , however , employed as synonymous with the whole of the coleopterous insects to which we have applied the name of ...
... common English name whereby various species of beetles are called , evidently adopted from the German Kafer , which is , however , employed as synonymous with the whole of the coleopterous insects to which we have applied the name of ...
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... common frog for in- stance , spend their winter in the crevices of springs , entirely cut off from the atmosphere . While in this state they have the mouth and also the nostrils com- pletely shut , so firmly that the mouth cannot be ...
... common frog for in- stance , spend their winter in the crevices of springs , entirely cut off from the atmosphere . While in this state they have the mouth and also the nostrils com- pletely shut , so firmly that the mouth cannot be ...
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... common beet . The leaves serve as a substitute for spinach , and the young shoots and mid rib of the leaves are eaten like asparagus . The plant grows in great quantity in the south of Germany and in Switzerland . A large variety has ...
... common beet . The leaves serve as a substitute for spinach , and the young shoots and mid rib of the leaves are eaten like asparagus . The plant grows in great quantity in the south of Germany and in Switzerland . A large variety has ...
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... common ash . CHIRONEMUS . A genus of spinous - finned fishes belonging. margins upon those dry and sterile plains which lie between the Andes and the Pacific , intermediate between Chile and Peru , though it is met with to a considerable ...
... common ash . CHIRONEMUS . A genus of spinous - finned fishes belonging. margins upon those dry and sterile plains which lie between the Andes and the Pacific , intermediate between Chile and Peru , though it is met with to a considerable ...
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... common language styled " the civet cat , " but the name is of course inapplicable , except in some slight resemblance in the manners , in the fur on the body , and in the form of the tail . They are all nocturnal animals ; their eyes ...
... common language styled " the civet cat , " but the name is of course inapplicable , except in some slight resemblance in the manners , in the fur on the body , and in the form of the tail . They are all nocturnal animals ; their eyes ...
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Page 302 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 109 - Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man seeking goodly pearls : who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Page 361 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Page 361 - ... coursing along the sands; trains of ducks streaming over the surface — silent and watchful cranes intent and wading ; clamorous crows, and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
Page 361 - ... rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish. The Eagle, poising himself for a moment as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 109 - The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 37 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Page 312 - ... before them. The hospitable monks, though their revenue is scanty, open their doors to every stranger that presents himself. To be cold, to be weary, to be benighted, constitute the title to their comfortable shelter, their cheering meal, and their agreeable discourse.
Page 312 - In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather, even after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, and the pink flowers of the rhododendron appear as if they were never to be sullied by the tempest. But a storm suddenly comes on; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow; the avalanches...