Quadrupeds; or, Outlines of a popular history of the class Mammalia1840 |
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... beautiful and complicated machinery of our manufactories , which seems to perform so many labours as it were by enchantment ; but in An acquaintance with nature leads also to a Natural History we behold a scheme more vast , a kindly ...
... beautiful and complicated machinery of our manufactories , which seems to perform so many labours as it were by enchantment ; but in An acquaintance with nature leads also to a Natural History we behold a scheme more vast , a kindly ...
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... beautiful jet black ; the skin beneath , as well as on the face , being of the same colour . The legs have the characteristic shortness which we see in the orang ; the feet , which are long and well adapted for grasping , have the first ...
... beautiful jet black ; the skin beneath , as well as on the face , being of the same colour . The legs have the characteristic shortness which we see in the orang ; the feet , which are long and well adapted for grasping , have the first ...
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... our notice may afford a criterion ) entitles Africa supplies us with the DIANA and MONA MONKEYS , two of the most beautiful of their Of their native manners we have no race . 12 certain account , except that they are said to.
... our notice may afford a criterion ) entitles Africa supplies us with the DIANA and MONA MONKEYS , two of the most beautiful of their Of their native manners we have no race . 12 certain account , except that they are said to.
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... beautiful instances of the adaptation of means to a given end . To the philosopher the contempla- tion is replete with delight and satisfaction , as it raises him from the creature to the Creator , whose tender mercies are over all His ...
... beautiful instances of the adaptation of means to a given end . To the philosopher the contempla- tion is replete with delight and satisfaction , as it raises him from the creature to the Creator , whose tender mercies are over all His ...
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... beautiful of their race ; they are favourites in captivity , and much valued even in their own country . They live in troops among the branches : fruit , eggs , young birds , and especially insects , constitute a principal part of their ...
... beautiful of their race ; they are favourites in captivity , and much valued even in their own country . They live in troops among the branches : fruit , eggs , young birds , and especially insects , constitute a principal part of their ...
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Africa America animal Anteater antelopes appear Bear beast beautiful blood body bones bound breed burrows Camel canine teeth Capybara Carnassiers CARNIVORA Cetacea characters claws close colour common creature Cuvier dark deer distinguished dogs domesticated ears Elephant elongated Engraving Europe exhibit extremely eyes feet flesh fore forests four genera genus Giraffe grey ground habits hair head herds hind Hippopotamus hoofs horns horse hunter Hyæna incisor incisor teeth India inhabit known Lemur length limbs LINN lion living mammalia manners molar tooth molars monkeys mountains mouth muscular Musk Ox muzzle native nature neck notice PACHYDERMATA pass peculiar plains plantigrade present prey proboscis QUADRUMANA quadrupeds race regions Reindeer render Rhinoceros RODENTIA RUMINANTIA Seal short side singular skin skull slender species squirrel strong surface tail thick tion toes trees tribe tusks upper jaw vegetable Whale wild young
Popular passages
Page 110 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send Aim away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness.
Page 86 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 121 - O LORD, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all : the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 78 - Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
Page 38 - But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters
Page 110 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 111 - And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 92 - And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Page 110 - ... but Christ being come, an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building ; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Page 19 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.