The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1808 - English literature |
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Page 120
... animal in our books of natural history ; and he moreover says that the figure and description of the naked buffalo in Pennant's History of Quadrupeds , bear no resem- blance whatever to any variety of this animal which he ever saw . The ...
... animal in our books of natural history ; and he moreover says that the figure and description of the naked buffalo in Pennant's History of Quadrupeds , bear no resem- blance whatever to any variety of this animal which he ever saw . The ...
Page 461
... animal , than from a vegetable , the laws of life seem to be so dissimilar . Add to this that the very struggles for life in a perfect animal seem to accelerate death ; of which struggles the mutilated animal is probably quite inca ...
... animal , than from a vegetable , the laws of life seem to be so dissimilar . Add to this that the very struggles for life in a perfect animal seem to accelerate death ; of which struggles the mutilated animal is probably quite inca ...
Page 466
... animal completely lethargic will live in the vacuum of an air - pump . It will live also in the carbonic acid , hydrogen , and nitrogen gases , in which in its common state it would perish in a few minutes . Though there is no ...
... animal completely lethargic will live in the vacuum of an air - pump . It will live also in the carbonic acid , hydrogen , and nitrogen gases , in which in its common state it would perish in a few minutes . Though there is no ...
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