Discovery: A Monthly Popular Journal of Knowledge, Volume 7John Murray, 1926 - Science news |
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... Flint Implements 67 SHIFFNER , ELEANOR : A Night on a Bird Island SHIPLEY , SIR ARTHUR : The Larvae and Pupae of Mosquitoes Breeding Pearls Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture Water Mites The University of Hong - Kong SMITH ...
... Flint Implements 67 SHIFFNER , ELEANOR : A Night on a Bird Island SHIPLEY , SIR ARTHUR : The Larvae and Pupae of Mosquitoes Breeding Pearls Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture Water Mites The University of Hong - Kong SMITH ...
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... flint known as a Font Robert point , which in form is not unlike a willow leaf , having a skilfully chipped tang at the base , probably for hafting purposes . As this is a tool typical of Aurignac- ian times , it is a valuable addition ...
... flint known as a Font Robert point , which in form is not unlike a willow leaf , having a skilfully chipped tang at the base , probably for hafting purposes . As this is a tool typical of Aurignac- ian times , it is a valuable addition ...
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... flints so noticeable in the dimmest light . It was revealed unexpectedly , gleam- ing upon the black ashes of the ancient fire , when a somewhat obstinate slab of rock was finally persuaded to move quite a spectacular find . An ...
... flints so noticeable in the dimmest light . It was revealed unexpectedly , gleam- ing upon the black ashes of the ancient fire , when a somewhat obstinate slab of rock was finally persuaded to move quite a spectacular find . An ...
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... flint and bone . The finding of beautiful proto - Solutrean points in parts of this layer prove that Solutrean influences had at one period affected these people , if the actual Solutrean folk had not themselves reached Creswell- a fact ...
... flint and bone . The finding of beautiful proto - Solutrean points in parts of this layer prove that Solutrean influences had at one period affected these people , if the actual Solutrean folk had not themselves reached Creswell- a fact ...
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... flint and quartzite arrow heads from people who have not the vaguest idea of how they were really used . As a practical sporting proposition we may yet see a revival of the bowman . At first sight it seems absurd to think that any of us ...
... flint and quartzite arrow heads from people who have not the vaguest idea of how they were really used . As a practical sporting proposition we may yet see a revival of the bowman . At first sight it seems absurd to think that any of us ...
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Page 378 - CAPTAIN or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If deed of honour did thee ever please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee, for he knows the charms...
Page 377 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot...
Page 378 - ... harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses...
Page 379 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 137 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir, the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 376 - At our feast, we had a play called Twelve Night, or What You Will. Much like the Comedy of Errors, or Menechmi in Plautus ; but most like and near to that in Italian called Inganni.
Page 310 - Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour: Brightness falls from the air, Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed Helen's eye. I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!
Page 353 - ... let holy water be made and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected, and relics placed. For if those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God ; that the nation, seeing that their temples are not destroyed, may remove error from their hearts, and knowing and adoring the true God, may the more familiarly resort to the places to which they have been accustomed.
Page 377 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The...
Page 379 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].