... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes' of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant... Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Pàgina 198editat per - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1825 - 452 pàgines
...every where around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested ray attention, but, after twenty-five minutes of constant...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| 1825 - 448 pàgines
...l^ro^i he7 watch-glass, sd' a1* IB of the apertures on the side of the sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| 1825 - 440 pàgines
...scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes ol'coiistaut observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued toi watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| 1826 - 628 pàgines
...hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The btauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom,...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Peter Mark Roget - 1834 - 660 pàgines
...of liquid matter, and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| Robert Bentley Todd - 1849 - 924 pàgines
...alter twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw itiy eye, from fat gne, without having seen the torrent, for one instant, change its direction, or di ninish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course ; I continued to watch the same orifice,... | |
| Peter Mark Roget - 1836 - 442 pàgines
...watch-glass, so as to bring one of the apertures on the side of the sponge fully into view, I beheld, for the first time, the splendid spectacle of this...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| 1842 - 1008 pàgines
...and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, •which it strewed everywhere around. T^ia beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom...for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
| 1845 - 606 pàgines
...patient observations that we are indebted for such a history of sponges as induces modern zoologists to classify them as members of the animal creation....those who pick up the things described, may form some not .on of their modes of being, from the descriptions of Mr. Jones. Of the Scrtularidcc he says :... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - 604 pàgines
...The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention ; but :ifu-r twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was...being, from the descriptions of Mr. Jones. Of the Sertularidae he says : " We next come to the consideration of a numerous race of compound polyps having... | |
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