Stories of the animal world; arranged so as to form a systematic introduction to zoology |
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... South America . It is seldom more than twelve inches long ; and has been found , not unfrequently , to take an empty cocoa - nut shell for his habitation . The little creature climbs with the agility of a squirrel . Its face is naked ...
... South America . It is seldom more than twelve inches long ; and has been found , not unfrequently , to take an empty cocoa - nut shell for his habitation . The little creature climbs with the agility of a squirrel . Its face is naked ...
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... South America kill them commonly for food . Lieut . Smyth in his journey from Lima to Para , tells us , that he often ate of them , and found them very good food . But in the travels I lately read through India , it was said , that the ...
... South America kill them commonly for food . Lieut . Smyth in his journey from Lima to Para , tells us , that he often ate of them , and found them very good food . But in the travels I lately read through India , it was said , that the ...
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... South America , and is about the size of a common cat . It employs some days in getting up into a tree ; and when it has devoured its leaves and fruit , it is said by some to throw itself down ; and by others , that it is as long in ...
... South America , and is about the size of a common cat . It employs some days in getting up into a tree ; and when it has devoured its leaves and fruit , it is said by some to throw itself down ; and by others , that it is as long in ...
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... South American Lion ‡ very much resembles the common lion in colour , voice , and appearance , only it has no mane . It hides itself in a tree , near places where animals come to drink , when it leaps down on them , and makes them his ...
... South American Lion ‡ very much resembles the common lion in colour , voice , and appearance , only it has no mane . It hides itself in a tree , near places where animals come to drink , when it leaps down on them , and makes them his ...
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Bourne Hall Draper. The Jaguar , * or South American tiger , is very like the puma . By one stroke of his paw , he has been know to kill the wild boar . Yet it is said , that serpents will sometimes seize , strangle , and devour him ...
Bourne Hall Draper. The Jaguar , * or South American tiger , is very like the puma . By one stroke of his paw , he has been know to kill the wild boar . Yet it is said , that serpents will sometimes seize , strangle , and devour him ...
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Seite 419 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...
Seite 400 - 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...
Seite 300 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Seite 125 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Seite 267 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Seite 247 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Seite 149 - In the centre of this grove there stood an oak, which, though shapely and tall on the whole, bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. On this a pair of ravens had fixed their residence for such a series of years, that the oak was distinguished by the title of the Raven Tree.
Seite 449 - Ye insects flutt'ring on the gale, In mutual concourse rise ; Crop the gay rose's vermeil bloom, And waft its spoils, a sweet perfume, In incense to the skies.