The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Հատոր 6George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... species are met with most abundantly in the warm seas of the eastern hemisphere . Those of special interest are the C. annulus , used by the Asiatic islanders to adorn their dress , for sinkers to their fishing nets , and for barter ...
... species are met with most abundantly in the warm seas of the eastern hemisphere . Those of special interest are the C. annulus , used by the Asiatic islanders to adorn their dress , for sinkers to their fishing nets , and for barter ...
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... species of which are common on the coast , and serve , like the lobster , for food . The most common is the lupa dicantha of Milne- Edwards , found most abundantly south of Cape Cod , and especially in Chesapeake and Dela- ware bays ...
... species of which are common on the coast , and serve , like the lobster , for food . The most common is the lupa dicantha of Milne- Edwards , found most abundantly south of Cape Cod , and especially in Chesapeake and Dela- ware bays ...
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... species , form the princi- pal sources of their subsistence . Their ene- mies are also many ; mammals frequenting the water , aquatic birds , voracious fishes , and even insect larvæ , destroy great numbers of them , especially in their ...
... species , form the princi- pal sources of their subsistence . Their ene- mies are also many ; mammals frequenting the water , aquatic birds , voracious fishes , and even insect larvæ , destroy great numbers of them , especially in their ...
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... species are described in South America and Australia by Milne - Ed- wards . Crawfish swim rapidly by means of the tail , whose strokes propel them backward ; they crawl well on the bottom , and are some- times seen at a considerable ...
... species are described in South America and Australia by Milne - Ed- wards . Crawfish swim rapidly by means of the tail , whose strokes propel them backward ; they crawl well on the bottom , and are some- times seen at a considerable ...
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... species , one inhabiting Asia , and the other Europe and North America ; those who con- sider the American bird different , because found here , without being able to give any specific characters for it , may call our bird C. Americana ...
... species , one inhabiting Asia , and the other Europe and North America ; those who con- sider the American bird different , because found here , without being able to give any specific characters for it , may call our bird C. Americana ...
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Էջ 96 - Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or, rather, very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with young shrimps...
Էջ 294 - If I had strength enough to hold a pen, I would write how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.
Էջ 346 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Էջ 346 - All power residing originally in and being derived from the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them.
Էջ 264 - I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Col. Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner, for some important service.
Էջ 162 - was to consider the several matters not only in themselves, but relatively, or as they respect each other ; both to treat them as so many wholes, and as so many parts of some greater whole.
Էջ 204 - An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.
Էջ 260 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Էջ 232 - Commedia made during the fourteenth century, and now existing in the libraries of Europe, are more numerous than those of all other works, ancient and modern, made during the same period. Between the invention of printing and the year 1500, more than twenty editions were published in Italy, the earliest in 1472. During the sixteenth century there were forty editions; during the seventeenth, a period, for Italy, of sceptical...
Էջ 306 - His father, one of the French protestants who took refuge in England upon...