 | 1863 - 546 Seiten
...they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized...races of man. A feather is itself a wonderful and beautiful thing. A bird clothed with feathers is almost necessarily a beautiful creature. How much... | |
 | 1863 - 376 Seiten
...they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized and most intellectual races of man." POISONS NOT ALWAYS POISONS. Mr. J. Attfield lately read a paper before the London Pharmaceutical Society,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1870 - 446 Seiten
...development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment amongst the most civilized and intellectual races of man. A feather is itself a wonderful...into the rigid, polished, wavy ribbons, which adorn Paradisea rubra, the mass of airy plumes on P. apoda, the tufts and wires of Seleueides alba, or the... | |
 | 1870 - 442 Seiten
...excite admiration and astonishment amongst the most civilized and intellectual races of man. A leather is itself a wonderful and a beautiful thing. A bird...into the rigid, polished, wavy ribbons, which adorn Parodista rubra, the mass of airy plumes on P. apoda, the tufts and wires of Seleucides alba, or the... | |
 | 1871 - 112 Seiten
...they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized...races of man. A feather is itself, a wonderful and beautiful thing ; a bird clothed with feathers is almost necessarily a beautiful creature ; how much... | |
 | 1863 - 376 Seiten
...they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized and most intellectual races of man." POISONS NOT ALWAYS POISONS. Mr. J. Attfield lately read a paper before the London Pharmaceutical Society,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 608 Seiten
...with feathers is almost necessarily a beautiful creator*. How ranch then mast we admire and wonder at the modification of simple feathers into the rigid, polished, wavy ribbons which adorn the Paradisea ruira, the mass of airy plumes on P. apoda, the tufts and wires of Seleucidei alba, or... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1905 - 520 Seiten
...to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized and most intellectual races of men. A feather is itself a wonderful and a beautiful thing....into the rigid, polished, wavy ribbons which adorn Paradisea rubra, the mass of airy plumes on P. apoda, the tufts and | wires of Seleucides alba, or... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1905 - 508 Seiten
...they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized and most intellectual races of men. A feather is itself a wonderful and a beautiful thing. A bird clothed with feathers is almost... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1905 - 522 Seiten
...they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous development of plumage, calculated to excite admiration and astonishment among the most civilized and most intellectual races of men. A feather is itself a wonderful and a beautiful thing. A bird clothed with feathers is almost... | |
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... the most savage and ruthless character, in the very lowest stage of civilization. In such a country and among such a people are found these wonderful productions of nature. In those trackless wilds do they display that exquisite beauty and that marvellous... 
