A Companion to the London Museum and Pantherion: Containing a Brief Description of Upwards of Fifteen Thousand Natural and Foreign Curiosities, Antiquities ... Now Open for Public Inspection in the Egyptian Temple, Picadilly, Londonproprietor, 1813 - 151 من الصفحات |
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... never appeared in them but three times during Captain Cook's stay at Owyhee ; viz . at the procession of the king and his people to the ships , on their first arrival ; in the tumult when the unfortu- nate commander fell a victim to ...
... never appeared in them but three times during Captain Cook's stay at Owyhee ; viz . at the procession of the king and his people to the ships , on their first arrival ; in the tumult when the unfortu- nate commander fell a victim to ...
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... never learn , that of tattowing the tips of the tongues of the females . From some information we received relative to the custom of tattowing , we were inclined to think it was frequently intended as a sign of mourning on the death of ...
... never learn , that of tattowing the tips of the tongues of the females . From some information we received relative to the custom of tattowing , we were inclined to think it was frequently intended as a sign of mourning on the death of ...
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... never found . They are undoubtedly a kind dispen- sation of Providence in the hotter regions , to pre- vent the putrid effluvia of the dead from too much injuring the health of the living . 1. Fulvous Vulture . ( Vultur Fulvus . ) This ...
... never found . They are undoubtedly a kind dispen- sation of Providence in the hotter regions , to pre- vent the putrid effluvia of the dead from too much injuring the health of the living . 1. Fulvous Vulture . ( Vultur Fulvus . ) This ...
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... never resting on the earth , and living on the dews of heaven . Others have asserted , that they live on insects ; while some have insisted , that they have no legs ; others again contend , that they have not only strong and large ...
... never resting on the earth , and living on the dews of heaven . Others have asserted , that they live on insects ; while some have insisted , that they have no legs ; others again contend , that they have not only strong and large ...
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... never be tamed , and that it is always wild . Its flesh has the odour of bastard musk , and is very unpalatable food ; its fat is reddish ; its stomach roomy and flaccid , as in birds of prey ; and like them too it discharges 48.
... never be tamed , and that it is always wild . Its flesh has the odour of bastard musk , and is very unpalatable food ; its fat is reddish ; its stomach roomy and flaccid , as in birds of prey ; and like them too it discharges 48.
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Africa ancient animal Ant-eater appearance Armour Banksia Serrata bill Bird of Paradise body bones British BRITISH EAGLES brought Captain coast colour common common Pheasant covered curious Eagle eggs elegant Europe extraordinary extremely Falco feathers feed fish frequently fruit genus Giraffa glass ground Hauberk head Heron Holland Hornbill Howitt Ibis inches long Indian inhabits insects iron ivory Jabiru killed kind known largest lately legs Lemur length Linnæan Linnæus Liverpool living London Museum Piccadilly male and female manner Monkey Mummy Museum Piccadilly April native of South naturalists nearly nest Opossum Orkneys ornamented pair Paradise Paradisea Pheasant Piccadilly April 11812 plumage Porcupine Port Jackson pouch presented prey quadrupeds remarkable resembles Rhinoceros rock Senegal serpents Shark shell singular Sir Joseph Banks skin South America South Seas species specimen Squirrel strong tail tain Tortoise tree tribe variety whole wings wood worn young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 84 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
الصفحة 97 - Through subterranean cells, Where searching sun-beams scarce can find a way, Earth animated heaves. The flowery leaf Wants not its soft inhabitants.
الصفحة 93 - 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.
الصفحة 78 - But should he hide his face, the astonish'd sun, And all the extinguish'd stars, would, loosening, reel Wide from their spheres, and Chaos come again. And yet was every faltering tongue of man, Almighty Father ! silent in Thy praise, Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, Even in the depth of solitary woods By human foot untrod ; proclaim Thy power, And to the choir celestial Thee resound, The eternal Cause, Support, and End of all...
الصفحة 109 - These are thy glorious Works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 51 - There are never more than two eggs found in the nest; these are about the size of small peas, and as white as snow, with here and there a yellow speck. The male and the female sit upon the nest by turns ; but the female takes to herself the greatest share. She seldom quits the...
الصفحة 51 - Their, wings are in such rapid motion, that it is impossible to discern their colours, except by their glittering. They are never still, but continually in motion, visiting flower after flower, and extracting its honey as if with a kiss. For this purpose they are furnished with a forky tongue, that enters the cup of the flower, and extracts its nectared tribute.
الصفحة 127 - The entire length, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, is seven feet ten inches ; and the height three feet six inches.
الصفحة 96 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
الصفحة 51 - ... for the purpose. The female is the architect, while the male goes in quest of materials, such as cotton, fine moss, and the fibres of vegetables. Of these materials a nest is composed, about the size of a hen's egg cut in two: it is admirably contrived, and warmly lined with cotton.