The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with Large Additions, Volume 2Harry Thurston Peck Dodd, Mead, 1898 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 90
... color , with long shaggy hair . The tail is rather more than half the length of the body , and is terminated by a ... colors of its fur are very fine , of a light olive brown above , and silvery gray beneath ; but besides other things ...
... color , with long shaggy hair . The tail is rather more than half the length of the body , and is terminated by a ... colors of its fur are very fine , of a light olive brown above , and silvery gray beneath ; but besides other things ...
Page 108
... color- less or brightly pigmented , and undergoes uniform increase in thickness . The contained protoplasm consists largely of the above - mentioned mycoprotein , and may include fat- like granules , particles of pure sulphur , grains ...
... color- less or brightly pigmented , and undergoes uniform increase in thickness . The contained protoplasm consists largely of the above - mentioned mycoprotein , and may include fat- like granules , particles of pure sulphur , grains ...
Page 114
... color is hoary gray in winter , yellowish brown in summer , the under parts generally yellowish white : a white stripe runs from the nose over the forehead to the neck . The hair becomes not only very long but woolly in winter . - The ...
... color is hoary gray in winter , yellowish brown in summer , the under parts generally yellowish white : a white stripe runs from the nose over the forehead to the neck . The hair becomes not only very long but woolly in winter . - The ...
Page 144
... color from the ruby proper , which is of a bright red or cochineal color , and from the spinelle ruby , which is of a red hue approaching to rose - color . This last kind of ruby has been recognized only in times which are comparatively ...
... color from the ruby proper , which is of a bright red or cochineal color , and from the spinelle ruby , which is of a red hue approaching to rose - color . This last kind of ruby has been recognized only in times which are comparatively ...
Page 165
... color ; the black B. is of a reddish or blackish brown color , and of the consistence of treacle . B. of Tolu , until recently , appeared in com- merce dry and friable , but is now generally soft and tenacious when first imported ...
... color ; the black B. is of a reddish or blackish brown color , and of the consistence of treacle . B. of Tolu , until recently , appeared in com- merce dry and friable , but is now generally soft and tenacious when first imported ...
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Page 312 - The general law of the land is in favor of the wager of battle, and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is, and not as we may wish it to be. Whatever prejudices, therefore, may justly exist against this mode of trial, still, as it is the law of the land, the court must pronounce judgment for it.
Page 414 - In 1836 he was elected professor of surgery in the university of Edinburgh. He was a fellow of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of some other learned bodies.
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Page 238 - OR, LAST IN HELL. WE two are last in hell ; what may we feare To be tormented or kept pris'ners here ? Alas ! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish, in hell we had been last and first.
Page 413 - An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras ; suggesting a System by which a School or Family may teach itself under the Superintendence of the Master or Parent.
Page 204 - Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the (Red) sea; and all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 412 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Page 426 - Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person, who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Page 361 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, With carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Page 199 - They say, moreover, that in every battle, wherever that flag went before them, if they were to gain the victory a live crow would appear flying on the middle of the flag; but if they were doomed to be defeated it would hang down motionless, and this was often proved to be so.