The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 10Charles Knight, 1838 |
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... feet and up- wards to a few inches . M. Brongniart has proposed to designate the several sizes by particular names , as gigantic , metric , cephallary , pugillary , & c . But in England we But in England we generally confine the term ...
... feet and up- wards to a few inches . M. Brongniart has proposed to designate the several sizes by particular names , as gigantic , metric , cephallary , pugillary , & c . But in England we But in England we generally confine the term ...
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... Feet of the first pair nearly as long as the body , slender , linear , not spinous , terminated by very long and narrow chelæ , with fingers little bent , but slightly inflected inwards ; carpus short ; feet of the other pairs also ...
... Feet of the first pair nearly as long as the body , slender , linear , not spinous , terminated by very long and narrow chelæ , with fingers little bent , but slightly inflected inwards ; carpus short ; feet of the other pairs also ...
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... feet , and the Auersberg , about eleven miles north - west of the Fichtelberg , which is 3132 feet above the level of the sea . The Freiberg or Eastern Mulde , the largest river in the province , flows through its eastern districts ...
... feet , and the Auersberg , about eleven miles north - west of the Fichtelberg , which is 3132 feet above the level of the sea . The Freiberg or Eastern Mulde , the largest river in the province , flows through its eastern districts ...
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... feet , the Fichtelberg , 3968 feet , the Schwarz- berg , 3988 feet , and the Hassberg , 3248 feet above the sea . Farther east and farther west the range gradually sinks lower , the Great Chirnstein , on the banks of the Elbe , rising ...
... feet , the Fichtelberg , 3968 feet , the Schwarz- berg , 3988 feet , and the Hassberg , 3248 feet above the sea . Farther east and farther west the range gradually sinks lower , the Great Chirnstein , on the banks of the Elbe , rising ...
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... feet , and the average height to the roof is 60 feet . At each angle is a square tower 200 feet high . The plan is divided so as to form a convent with cloisters , two colleges , one for the clergy and one for seculars , the royal ...
... feet , and the average height to the roof is 60 feet . At each angle is a square tower 200 feet high . The plan is divided so as to form a convent with cloisters , two colleges , one for the clergy and one for seculars , the royal ...
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Seite 171 - ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Seite 171 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character : he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 41 - Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Seite 223 - ... qualities, the seller was to forfeit to the buyer the third part of its value. If any one stole or killed the cat that guarded the prince's granary, he was to forfeit a milch ewe, its fleece and lamb ; or as much wheat as, when poured on the cat suspended by its tail (the head touching the floor) would form a heap high enough to cover the tip of the former.
Seite 289 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Seite 289 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Seite 171 - ... nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward ; the little King-bird, not bigger than a Sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out of the district. He is, therefore, by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven...
Seite 289 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 102 - The being and existence of the thing itself is what I call the original truth. A credible man vouching his knowledge of it is a good proof: but if another equally credible do witness it from his report, the testimony is weaker; and a third that attests the hear-say of an hear-say, is yet less considerable.
Seite 246 - ... know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the custom and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me god and his saints; and he shall kiss the book.