The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, المجلد 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 100
الصفحة 3
... respects admirably fitted for the station which Nature has assigned to it in the grand economy of the animal kingdom . It feeds entirely upon ants , and in this respect fulfils the same purpose in Southern Africa which is executed by ...
... respects admirably fitted for the station which Nature has assigned to it in the grand economy of the animal kingdom . It feeds entirely upon ants , and in this respect fulfils the same purpose in Southern Africa which is executed by ...
الصفحة 4
... respect , also , the proteles resembles the hyænas ; and in both genera this singular disproportion between the anterior and posterior extremities abridges the velocity properly due to their digitigrade confor mation . It has been ...
... respect , also , the proteles resembles the hyænas ; and in both genera this singular disproportion between the anterior and posterior extremities abridges the velocity properly due to their digitigrade confor mation . It has been ...
الصفحة 11
... respect , and were con- sequently , in general , persons of very inferior qualifications . Others were professors of ... respects ABBESS , the superior of a nunnery , or other female reli- quite independent of the sinecurist , his ...
... respect , and were con- sequently , in general , persons of very inferior qualifications . Others were professors of ... respects ABBESS , the superior of a nunnery , or other female reli- quite independent of the sinecurist , his ...
الصفحة 12
... respects , secular persons . They took this title in conse- quence of the possessions of certain abbeys having been ... respect and reverence , and ap- pears to have been at first applied to any member of the clerical order , just as ...
... respects , secular persons . They took this title in conse- quence of the possessions of certain abbeys having been ... respect and reverence , and ap- pears to have been at first applied to any member of the clerical order , just as ...
الصفحة 18
... the deficiency of the Linnæan sys- tem in this respect , revives the more correct and natural arrangement of Artedi ; and after , first of all , dividing the Salmon , given as a specimen of the family of ABD A B D 18.
... the deficiency of the Linnæan sys- tem in this respect , revives the more correct and natural arrangement of Artedi ; and after , first of all , dividing the Salmon , given as a specimen of the family of ABD A B D 18.
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Ababde Abruzzo Abyssinia Academy Acarnania according acetic acetic acid acid advowson æther affinity Africa afterwards Albanians Alcibiades alcohol Alemanni ancient animals appear Arabic authority body branches called Cape celebrated century character chemical affinity chief church coast colour common considerable contains court Cuvier death disease east Egypt emperor English favour feet French genus given Greek Herodotus hyæna inches inhabitants island king known land language Latin latter length ment miles mountains native nature nearly observed oxygen Peloponnesus period Persian person plants possession present principal probably produce province quantity rarefaction received remains remarkable river Roman Rome Salt Senegal Sicily side Sparta species Strabo substance sulphuric sulphuric acid supposed temple term Tigré tion town trees tribes velocity vessels whole word writers
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
الصفحة 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
الصفحة 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
الصفحة 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
الصفحة 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
الصفحة 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
الصفحة 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
الصفحة 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
الصفحة 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.