The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Band 1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... Cuvier , resemble the joint of a cane cut across , and exhibiting the numerous minute vessels which perforate its interior . Properly speaking , these teeth are destitute of real roots , and are therefore , like the tusks of the ...
... Cuvier , resemble the joint of a cane cut across , and exhibiting the numerous minute vessels which perforate its interior . Properly speaking , these teeth are destitute of real roots , and are therefore , like the tusks of the ...
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... Cuvier , who first examined them , that the dental system of the mature animal must very closely resemble , if it be not actually identical with , that of the civets and genets . The young animal presented three small false molars and ...
... Cuvier , who first examined them , that the dental system of the mature animal must very closely resemble , if it be not actually identical with , that of the civets and genets . The young animal presented three small false molars and ...
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... Cuvier , perceiving the deficiency of the Linnæan sys- tem in this respect , revives the more correct and natural arrangement of Artedi ; and after , first of all , dividing the Salmon , given as a specimen of the family of ABD A B D 18.
... Cuvier , perceiving the deficiency of the Linnæan sys- tem in this respect , revives the more correct and natural arrangement of Artedi ; and after , first of all , dividing the Salmon , given as a specimen of the family of ABD A B D 18.
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... Cuvier subdivides this the offerings of which they were severally composed . It family into five subordinate groups , all of which he has would rather appear that it was the opposite characters of defined by appropriate and unequivocal ...
... Cuvier subdivides this the offerings of which they were severally composed . It family into five subordinate groups , all of which he has would rather appear that it was the opposite characters of defined by appropriate and unequivocal ...
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... CUVIER ; Fringilla the market in the months of June and July . The supply ligurina , RANZANI ) , sometimes called the siskin , a well - known of coal and iron afforded by the neighbouring mountains song - bird , which has some ...
... CUVIER ; Fringilla the market in the months of June and July . The supply ligurina , RANZANI ) , sometimes called the siskin , a well - known of coal and iron afforded by the neighbouring mountains song - bird , which has some ...
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Seite 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Seite 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
Seite 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Seite 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
Seite 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Seite 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
Seite 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
Seite 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
Seite 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.