Cyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science and Literature: Representing Anatomy, Physiology, Phrenology, Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Natural History, Ichthyology, Mythology, Ornithology, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Zoology, Entomology, Biography, Etc....Hurst & Company, 1882 |
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Արդյունքներ 62–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... discovering a Number thought on ... To tell the Number & Person has fixed upon , without asking him any Questions A curious Recreation - The Blind Abbess and her Nuns Any Number being named , add a Figure , which shall make it divisible ...
... discovering a Number thought on ... To tell the Number & Person has fixed upon , without asking him any Questions A curious Recreation - The Blind Abbess and her Nuns Any Number being named , add a Figure , which shall make it divisible ...
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... discovered growing in the internal parts ; and on several occasions , they have been found lying loosely in the cavities of the veins . There are instances of mankind being affected in the same manner . Cardan relates , that he found ...
... discovered growing in the internal parts ; and on several occasions , they have been found lying loosely in the cavities of the veins . There are instances of mankind being affected in the same manner . Cardan relates , that he found ...
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... discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long . The Chevalier Scory , in his voyage to the Peak of Teneriffe , says , that they found , in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain , the head of a gaunche , which had ...
... discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long . The Chevalier Scory , in his voyage to the Peak of Teneriffe , says , that they found , in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain , the head of a gaunche , which had ...
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... discovered of giants , of a still more incredible height , viz . of Theutobo- chus , king of the Teutones , found on the 11th of January , 1613 , twenty - five feet and a half high ; of a giant near Ma- zarino , in Sicily , in 1516 ...
... discovered of giants , of a still more incredible height , viz . of Theutobo- chus , king of the Teutones , found on the 11th of January , 1613 , twenty - five feet and a half high ; of a giant near Ma- zarino , in Sicily , in 1516 ...
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... discovered that this pretence was only a stratagem to withdraw himself from their hands ; that their hostages like- wise , during the night , had found an opportunity of escaping by means of their ladders , and that the inhabitants of ...
... discovered that this pretence was only a stratagem to withdraw himself from their hands ; that their hostages like- wise , during the night , had found an opportunity of escaping by means of their ladders , and that the inhabitants of ...
Common terms and phrases
afterwards animal animalcules ant-lion ants aphides appearance arms astonishing bees birds blood body bones called cavity cells chyle colour comb common composed covered creature cuckoo CURIOSITIES RESPECTING curious discovered earth eggs elytra extraordinary extremely eyes feathers feet females fish flesh four frogs furnished give grow hair head hive human inches inhabitants insects instances island jaws kind kraken labour larvæ leaves legs length lived male mandibles manner motion mouth nature nest never nourishment observed oviparous person pieces plants polype polypide Port Jackson Shark prey produced pupa quadrupeds queen remarkable resembles round says scorpion seeds seems seen shew side SIMON BROWNE singular skin sometimes soon species spider substance supposed surface swallows tail thick thread tion torpid tree trunk vegetable vessels wasps whale whole wings wonderful wood worm young
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Էջ 351 - They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Էջ 184 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Էջ 11 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Էջ 384 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to him whose sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints.
Էջ 139 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Էջ 71 - Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. . What is this absorbs me quite ! Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul!
Էջ 342 - While o'er th' enfeebling lute his hand he flung, And to the trembling chords these tempting verses sung : " Behold ! ye pilgrims of this earth, behold ! See all but man with unearn'd pleasure gay : See her bright robes the butterfly unfold, Broke from her wintry tomb in prime of May ! What youthful bride can equal her array ? Who can with her for easy pleasure vie...
Էջ 11 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Էջ 352 - But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
Էջ 184 - ... of sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood; the spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! feels at each thread, and lives along the line...