Quadrupeds; or, Outlines of a popular history of the class Mammalia1840 |
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... called cloven ; ) the teeth usually of two , but sometimes of three kinds ; the stomach constructed for ruminating . IX . - Cetacea . Body constructed for inhabiting the water ; limbs consisting of an anterior pair only , forming ...
... called cloven ; ) the teeth usually of two , but sometimes of three kinds ; the stomach constructed for ruminating . IX . - Cetacea . Body constructed for inhabiting the water ; limbs consisting of an anterior pair only , forming ...
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... called the ring finger , is capa- ble of independent movements , a power pos- sessed by no other animal ; and the thumb is so elongated as to meet readily the tips of any of the fingers the fingers themselves , and especially the pulpy ...
... called the ring finger , is capa- ble of independent movements , a power pos- sessed by no other animal ; and the thumb is so elongated as to meet readily the tips of any of the fingers the fingers themselves , and especially the pulpy ...
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... called usurpation . Hence , between the lowest savage , " that bends his bow , and lives upon the chase , " and the brute that may be considered highest in the scale , there is an immeasurable distance . We are led to these observations ...
... called usurpation . Hence , between the lowest savage , " that bends his bow , and lives upon the chase , " and the brute that may be considered highest in the scale , there is an immeasurable distance . We are led to these observations ...
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... called forth the sympathy of the whole party . The eagerness of the chase subsided ; but so deep an impression did the maternal tenderness and unexpected self- devotion of the poor Orang make on the gentle- man alluded to , whose heart ...
... called forth the sympathy of the whole party . The eagerness of the chase subsided ; but so deep an impression did the maternal tenderness and unexpected self- devotion of the poor Orang make on the gentle- man alluded to , whose heart ...
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... called the African Orang . Of this animal in the adult age little or nothing is known . Two or three fine skeletons exist ( one of which the author has personally inspected ) which present anatomical differences between this and the ...
... called the African Orang . Of this animal in the adult age little or nothing is known . Two or three fine skeletons exist ( one of which the author has personally inspected ) which present anatomical differences between this and the ...
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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
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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.