Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volumen5John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832 |
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... cause of this well known and beautiful phenomenon . It is as follows : " On treading upon a tuft of tang [ sea - weed ] in our way down to the boat , it shot out in every direction interrupted rays of phosphoric light , like a star of ...
... cause of this well known and beautiful phenomenon . It is as follows : " On treading upon a tuft of tang [ sea - weed ] in our way down to the boat , it shot out in every direction interrupted rays of phosphoric light , like a star of ...
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... cause of the phenomenon ; and that , until some direct and well - conducted experiments establish the fact that their lu- minosity is an inherent and essential condition of their organ- isation , we may suppose it to be of the nature ...
... cause of the phenomenon ; and that , until some direct and well - conducted experiments establish the fact that their lu- minosity is an inherent and essential condition of their organ- isation , we may suppose it to be of the nature ...
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... cause it to stand better with the world at large than it has hitherto done : but I have slender hopes on this score ; because old and deep - rooted prejudices are seldom overcome ; and when I look back into the annals of remote ...
... cause it to stand better with the world at large than it has hitherto done : but I have slender hopes on this score ; because old and deep - rooted prejudices are seldom overcome ; and when I look back into the annals of remote ...
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... cause by which it is produced : so that it appears that in contractility there is an actual generation of power ; whereas , in the reaction of elastic bodies , the effect . produced can never exceed the amount of the cause producing it ...
... cause by which it is produced : so that it appears that in contractility there is an actual generation of power ; whereas , in the reaction of elastic bodies , the effect . produced can never exceed the amount of the cause producing it ...
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... cause by which it is produced ; and , in experiments , I have witnessed that relaxation will take place at the same time that the mechanical cause which excited the contraction continues to be impressed . Moreover , the stamen of the ...
... cause by which it is produced ; and , in experiments , I have witnessed that relaxation will take place at the same time that the mechanical cause which excited the contraction continues to be impressed . Moreover , the stamen of the ...
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Página 419 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 567 - Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 515 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 418 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 235 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 111 - Let vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Página 677 - Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclined, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.
Página 467 - Humming-bird entitles it to the first place in the list of the birds of the new world. It may truly be called the Bird of Paradise ; and had it existed in the old world, it would have claimed the title instead of the bird which has now the honour to bear it : — see it darting through the air almost as quick as thought ! — now it is within a yard of your...
Página 577 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Página 16 - Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...