The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: v. 1-27, Volum 14C. Knight, 1839 |
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Pàgina 28
... FELIS , vol . x . , and the reader is requested to bear in mind backwards in the cranium of the lion , of the nasal processes that the short descriptions under the figures of the claws of the maxillary bones to the same transverse line ...
... FELIS , vol . x . , and the reader is requested to bear in mind backwards in the cranium of the lion , of the nasal processes that the short descriptions under the figures of the claws of the maxillary bones to the same transverse line ...
Pàgina 29
... Felis , had previously examined the tails of nearly the whole of the stuffed skins in the Society's museum , but failed in detecting it in every instance but one . This was an adult Asiatic leopard , in which the nail was evident ...
... Felis , had previously examined the tails of nearly the whole of the stuffed skins in the Society's museum , but failed in detecting it in every instance but one . This was an adult Asiatic leopard , in which the nail was evident ...
Pàgina 30
... Felis , Linnæus , in his last edition of the Syst . Nat . , ' notices no with Africa only as the habitat . Neither ... Felis Le Lion ( Felis Leo , Linn . ) ' and describes it as distinguished by its uniform yellow colour , the tuft of ...
... Felis , Linnæus , in his last edition of the Syst . Nat . , ' notices no with Africa only as the habitat . Neither ... Felis Le Lion ( Felis Leo , Linn . ) ' and describes it as distinguished by its uniform yellow colour , the tuft of ...
Pàgina 31
... Felis , L. , Cats , he characterizes thus : No mane ; tail long , not tufted . ' In his Animals in Menageries , ' 1838 , the Lion does not appear to be noticed . • AFRICAN LIONS . - Temminck notices two varieties of the African Lion ...
... Felis , L. , Cats , he characterizes thus : No mane ; tail long , not tufted . ' In his Animals in Menageries , ' 1838 , the Lion does not appear to be noticed . • AFRICAN LIONS . - Temminck notices two varieties of the African Lion ...
Pàgina 33
... Felis , larger than a Lion , had been expected to be forwarded from Nubia to the Frankfort Museum . In December 1833 , Captain Walter Smee exhibited to a meeting of the Zoological Society of London the skins of a Lion and Lioness killed ...
... Felis , larger than a Lion , had been expected to be forwarded from Nubia to the Frankfort Museum . In December 1833 , Captain Walter Smee exhibited to a meeting of the Zoological Society of London the skins of a Lion and Lioness killed ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 390 - Those that have foregone that pleasing adviser, and given up their mind to be the slave of every popular impulse, I sincerely pity : I pity them still more, if their vanity leads them to mistake the shouts of a mob for the trumpet of fame. Experience might...
Pàgina 79 - Ephesians. To which is prefixed an Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles, by consulting St. Paul himself.
Pàgina 390 - But if the noble lord means that mushroom popularity which is raised without merit, and lost without a crime, he is much mistaken in his opinion. I defy the noble lord to point out a single action in my life where the popularity of the times ever had the smallest influence on my determinations.
Pàgina 390 - I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Pàgina 123 - What indeed may not the public apprehend, when they are informed as an unquestionable fact, that there are at this time a great gang of rogues, whose number falls little short of a hundred, who are incorporated in one body, have officers and a treasury, and have reduced theft and robbery into a regular system.
Pàgina 80 - The other way of retention, is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas, which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of sight; and thus we do, when we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet, the object being removed. This is memory, which...
Pàgina 409 - These days being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured to account for this circumstance, by pretending that March borrowed them from April, that he might extend his power so much longer." "Those," he adds, "who are much addicted to superstition, will neither borrow nor lend on any of these days.
Pàgina 162 - ... is separated from the stone. This meal is then mixed with a little water, and formed into cakes ; which, when dried in the sun, resemble in colour and flavour the sweetest gingerbread. The stones are afterwards put into a vessel of water, and shaken about so as to separate the meal which may still...
Pàgina 281 - But besides these feudal provisions, care was also taken therein to protect the subject against other oppressions then frequently arising from unreasonable amercements, from illegal distresses, or other process for debts or services due to the crown, and from the tyrannical abuse of the prerogative of purveyance and pre-emption. It fixed the forfeiture of lands for felony in...
Pàgina 281 - And, lastly (which alone would have merited the title that it bears, of the great charter), it protected every individual of the nation in the free enjoyment of his life, his liberty, and his property, unless declared to be forfeited by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.