A Compendium of Zoology,: Being a Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals. Confirmed by Actual and Personal Observations, with Original Remarks, and Interesting Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors; to which is Subjoined an Appendix, on Allegorical and Fabulous Animals. The Whole Illustrated by Accurate Figures, Engraved on Wood.. |
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Page iii
... seems that , in the hurry of compilation , the writer had unwit- tingly admitted several subjects and observations , which have been since properly deemed objectionable ; that erroneous opinions , which , though apparently consecrated ...
... seems that , in the hurry of compilation , the writer had unwit- tingly admitted several subjects and observations , which have been since properly deemed objectionable ; that erroneous opinions , which , though apparently consecrated ...
Page vii
... seems natural to class together the inhabitants of the deep : but here some of the most conspicuous of these , as the whale and the dolphin , are classed with quadrupeds , under the general title of mammalia , because , like these ...
... seems natural to class together the inhabitants of the deep : but here some of the most conspicuous of these , as the whale and the dolphin , are classed with quadrupeds , under the general title of mammalia , because , like these ...
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... seems to be awed by the presence of man , as he never attacks him but when pressed by hunger , or the fear of losing his young . The cubs of the Royal Tiger are most elegant in their shape , and as playful as kittens . The marshy banks ...
... seems to be awed by the presence of man , as he never attacks him but when pressed by hunger , or the fear of losing his young . The cubs of the Royal Tiger are most elegant in their shape , and as playful as kittens . The marshy banks ...
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... seems to be made for fight , having short thick horns , with which he can toss up into the air a large dog and other weighty things : his voice is deep and loud , and , when furious , nothing can stop his devastations . The species is ...
... seems to be made for fight , having short thick horns , with which he can toss up into the air a large dog and other weighty things : his voice is deep and loud , and , when furious , nothing can stop his devastations . The species is ...
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... seems to have imi- tated Job : " The fiery courser , when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets , and the shouts of war Pricks up his ears , and trembling with delight Shifts place , and paws , and hopes the promis'd fight . On his ...
... seems to have imi- tated Job : " The fiery courser , when he hears from far The sprightly trumpets , and the shouts of war Pricks up his ears , and trembling with delight Shifts place , and paws , and hopes the promis'd fight . On his ...
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Page 233 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 14 - Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. His horny hoofs are jetty black and round; His chine is double; starting, with a bound He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground. Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow: He bears his rider headlong on the foe.
Page 293 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 357 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 129 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding. What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
Page 207 - Tempest the ocean : there leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Page 125 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 80 - The full-grown condor measures, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, from...
Page 221 - All the magistrates round flocked hither to view this sight, whose arrival, and prolonged stay, was an additional expense, which the slender finances of this little community would ill afford ; besides, the quiet and retirement of the place was utterly destroyed. It was thought proper, therefore, to remove the occasion of this concourse, by privately killing the poor dolphin.
Page 246 - Suabia, with a brazen ring attached to it, on which were these words in Greek characters : — " I am the fish which was first of all put into this lake by the hands of the Governor of the Universe, Frederick the Second, the 5th of October 1230.