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... Chinese with their chopsticks . All the time M. Sonnerat had this animal alive , he never saw it carry its tail elevated like the squirrel . It always dragged . But Buffon's figure , or rather that of the Supplement , sets the tail up ...
... Chinese with their chopsticks . All the time M. Sonnerat had this animal alive , he never saw it carry its tail elevated like the squirrel . It always dragged . But Buffon's figure , or rather that of the Supplement , sets the tail up ...
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... China or Hindostan . Sir William Jones inclines to the Researches , he says , We may be satisfied with the testi- mony of the Persians : who , though as much inclined as foreign people , unanimously agree that the game was im- other ...
... China or Hindostan . Sir William Jones inclines to the Researches , he says , We may be satisfied with the testi- mony of the Persians : who , though as much inclined as foreign people , unanimously agree that the game was im- other ...
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... China : Canton . East Indies : eatta . goods ; wheat , flour , wine , raisins ; tal- low , jerked beef , almonds , walnuts , timber . The same . European and Indian goods ; wine , rits , flour , fruits . The same . Sugar , hats of palm ...
... China : Canton . East Indies : eatta . goods ; wheat , flour , wine , raisins ; tal- low , jerked beef , almonds , walnuts , timber . The same . European and Indian goods ; wine , rits , flour , fruits . The same . Sugar , hats of palm ...
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... CHINA is an extensive country in Eastern Asia , consti- tuting the principal portion of the Chinese empire . It is situated on the borders of the Pacific , and extends from 20 ° N. lat . , or , if the island of Hainan is included , from ...
... CHINA is an extensive country in Eastern Asia , consti- tuting the principal portion of the Chinese empire . It is situated on the borders of the Pacific , and extends from 20 ° N. lat . , or , if the island of Hainan is included , from ...
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... China , which is washed by the Gulf of Tonkin ( about 100 miles ) , is not well known . A considerable portion of China is covered with moun- tains . Its western boundary extends to the chains which constitute the eastern edge of the ...
... China , which is washed by the Gulf of Tonkin ( about 100 miles ) , is not well known . A considerable portion of China is covered with moun- tains . Its western boundary extends to the chains which constitute the eastern edge of the ...
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Seite 118 - being warned in a dream by the Angel of the Lord, that what was 'conceived in her was of the Holy Ghost, took unto him his wife and knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born son : and he called his name Jesus.' (Matth. i.) Herod was much troubled at the miraculous circumstances which attended the birth of
Seite 118 - when his mother Mary (according to the words of St. Matthew) was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.' Joseph, who intended to put her away
Seite 214 - He that is bom in thy house, and he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed: he that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised.
Seite 316 - that of the coal-mines of Bohemia just mentioned. The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with
Seite 214 - money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed: he that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised.
Seite 248 - head of the clan, and which was common to all his predecessors and successors, as Pharaoh to the kings of Egypt, or Arsaces to those of Parthia. This name was usually a, patronymic, expressive of his descent from the founder of the family. Thus the duke of Argyle is called Mac
Seite 20 - It would take flies out of a person's hand; if you gave it anything to eat it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head, in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of flics, which
Seite 20 - confute the vulgar opinion, that bats, when down on a flat surface, cannot get on the wing again, by rising with great ease from the floor. It ran, I observed, with more dispatch than I was aware of, but in a most ridiculous and grotesque manner.' The large-eared bats, collected by Carlise,
Seite 306 - by Verres, a marble Venus from Cnidus. (In Verrem, iv. 60.) COACH, it is stated by Stow, that in ' 1564, Boonen, a Dutchman, became the queen's coachmanne, and was the first that brought the use of coaches into England.
Seite 301 - was formed a little after the return of King Charles II., and admitted into it men of all qualities and professions, provided they agreed in this surname of King, which, as they imagined, sufficiently declared the owners of it to be altogether untainted with