A Naturalist's Sojourn in JamaicaLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851 - 508 من الصفحات |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
abundant Alco animal Anoles appearance Artibeus bark beach beautiful belly beneath birds blossom blue Bluefields body branches broad brown bushes Calabash called caudal Cetacea character Chiton close colour common covered crawling curious CYATHEA ARBOREA dark deep described diameter edge eggs feet fish flowers foliage forest fronds fruit Gecko genus goitre green grey Guazuma ulmifolia habit Haïti half head Hill inches inhabitants insects island Jamaica leaping leaves length light Lizard mass membrane minute Mount Edgecumbe mountain mouth Musquitoes muzzle Naseberry nearly negroes night observed operculum pale peculiar plants remarkable reptile resembling river road rock roots round Savanna scarcely scene seen shell shore side SILK-COTTON TREE skin slender Snake species specimens Spider spines spot stems stones summit surface tail thick tree trunk upper vegetation wild wild hogs wings woods yellow young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 497 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
الصفحة 497 - I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," says Coleridge, in the preface to his poems ; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude, and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
الصفحة 101 - How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orb'd glory yonder Moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
الصفحة 18 - M'CULLOCH. -A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL INFLUENCE of TAXATION and the FUNDING SYSTEM.
الصفحة 13 - The Parent's Hand-book." New Edition. Fcp. 8vo. 5s. cloth. HUDSON-PLAIN DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING WILLS In Conformity with the Law, and particularly with reference to the Act 7 Will. 4 and 1 Viet, c. 26. To which is added, a clear Exposition of the Law relating to the distribution of Personal Estate in the case of Intestacy ; with two Forms of Wills, and much useful information, &c.
الصفحة 21 - Murray's Encyclopaedia of Geography ; comprising a complete Description of the Earth : Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Nations. Second Edition ; with 82 Maps, and upwards of 1,000 other Woodcuts. 8vo. price 60s. Neale.
الصفحة 105 - Sorrowing we beheld The night come on ; but soon did night display More wonders than it veiled : innumerous tribes From the wood-cover swarmed, and darkness made Their beauties visible ; one while, they streamed A bright blue radiance upon flowers that closed Their gorgeous colours from the eye of day ; Now, motionless and dark, eluded search, Self-shrouded ; and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire.
الصفحة 299 - Esquivel," after the Spanish Governor of that name, who established it as a ship-building port. It possesses a fine harbour studded with little low cays and rocky islets.
الصفحة 203 - Cum sonitu, fervetque fretis spirantibus aequor. Ipse Pater media nimborum in nocte corusca Fulmina molitur dextra, quo maxima motu Terra tremit, fugere ferae et mortalia corda 330 Per gentes humilis stravit pavor...
الصفحة 402 - ... just as the period of hatching is completed, exhibits her eagerness for her offspring in the anxiety with which she comes and goes, walks...