The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: v. 1-27, Volum 14C. Knight, 1839 |
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Pàgina 25
... colour , mixt of cinereous and dusky or brown ; 3 , a tail a little forked ; 4 , a peculiar colour of the outmost feathers of the tail , viz . brown , with white borders or edges ; 5 , a sweet note . Of linnets we have observed four ...
... colour , mixt of cinereous and dusky or brown ; 3 , a tail a little forked ; 4 , a peculiar colour of the outmost feathers of the tail , viz . brown , with white borders or edges ; 5 , a sweet note . Of linnets we have observed four ...
Pàgina 26
... colour , partially hidden in winter under the ashy edges with which these feathers are termi- nated , to appear in the spring . He adds that one may conceive that age and the more or less distant time of moulting may vary this plumage ...
... colour , partially hidden in winter under the ashy edges with which these feathers are termi- nated , to appear in the spring . He adds that one may conceive that age and the more or less distant time of moulting may vary this plumage ...
Pàgina 29
... coloured , hard as horn , placed in the very tip of the Lion's tail , sur- rounded at its base by an annular fold of ... colour , but became darker , nearly to blackness , at the tip . Its appearance , Mr. Woods observed , would lead to ...
... coloured , hard as horn , placed in the very tip of the Lion's tail , sur- rounded at its base by an annular fold of ... colour , but became darker , nearly to blackness , at the tip . Its appearance , Mr. Woods observed , would lead to ...
Pàgina 30
... colour that part , mentioned by antient writers on natural T..a Aristotle ( ix . 44 ) distinguishes two kinds of one rounder than the other ( σтooyyvλwτepov ) , and has the mane more curled ( oλorpixuripov ) , which tates to be the most ...
... colour that part , mentioned by antient writers on natural T..a Aristotle ( ix . 44 ) distinguishes two kinds of one rounder than the other ( σтooyyvλwτepov ) , and has the mane more curled ( oλorpixuripov ) , which tates to be the most ...
Pàgina 32
... colour , and the less extensive mane of the this he made so little exertion , that it was scarcely percep- African . He gives a beautiful cut of the Bengal Lion , tible by what means they had been killed . Of the time executed by Harvey ...
... colour , and the less extensive mane of the this he made so little exertion , that it was scarcely percep- African . He gives a beautiful cut of the Bengal Lion , tible by what means they had been killed . Of the time executed by Harvey ...
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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.