Leaves from the Note Book of a NaturalistJ. W. Parker and son, 1852 - 413 oldal |
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ix. oldal
... fishes - Feathers of the Condor used as quills - The King Vulture - Its brilliant colours - Account of a Buzzard hatching chickens • CHAPTER III . P. 8 Transmigration of Souls - The Stork : qualities attributed to the bird by the ...
... fishes - Feathers of the Condor used as quills - The King Vulture - Its brilliant colours - Account of a Buzzard hatching chickens • CHAPTER III . P. 8 Transmigration of Souls - The Stork : qualities attributed to the bird by the ...
x. oldal
... fish ' - Feeding the nest- lings - Visits of the Stork to the nests of Wild Ducks- Traditions connected with the White Stork- The Black Stork - Its habits - Colonel Montagu's specimen - Mode of cooking the Stork - The ' Adjutant ' - The ...
... fish ' - Feeding the nest- lings - Visits of the Stork to the nests of Wild Ducks- Traditions connected with the White Stork- The Black Stork - Its habits - Colonel Montagu's specimen - Mode of cooking the Stork - The ' Adjutant ' - The ...
18. oldal
... fish . Something may be , therefore , attributed to the disproportioned bulk of the young condor ; but true as the maxim is , it does not follow that the parent has the power of distinguishing size . In birds such a power probably does ...
... fish . Something may be , therefore , attributed to the disproportioned bulk of the young condor ; but true as the maxim is , it does not follow that the parent has the power of distinguishing size . In birds such a power probably does ...
30. oldal
... fish , and frogs , are its favourite food , and hence the respect in which it is held by all nations , to whom it comes a welcome and regular visitor . Toads it will eat if pressed by hunger , but not for choice , eschewing most ...
... fish , and frogs , are its favourite food , and hence the respect in which it is held by all nations , to whom it comes a welcome and regular visitor . Toads it will eat if pressed by hunger , but not for choice , eschewing most ...
31. oldal
... FISH , ' hung out from many a sign , which too often lies like a bulletin . Now the stork's repast is very frequently a truly animated one , and he not unfre- quently feels the inconvenience of a too lively dinner , anxious to escape by ...
... FISH , ' hung out from many a sign , which too often lies like a bulletin . Now the stork's repast is very frequently a truly animated one , and he not unfre- quently feels the inconvenience of a too lively dinner , anxious to escape by ...
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25. oldal - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
110. oldal - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
215. oldal - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
265. oldal - What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story...
191. oldal - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
359. oldal - Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. DIFFUGIMUS visu exsangues : illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt; et primum parva duorum Corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque Implicat , et miseros morsu depascitur artus. Post ipsum , auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem Corripiunt , spirisque ligant ingentibus : et jam Bis medium amplexi , bis collo squamea circum Terga dati , superant capite et cervicibus altis.
205. oldal - And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded : and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
160. oldal - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
110. oldal - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed : and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies ; and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
90. oldal - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below, — the snow-white Gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy...