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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... Minute blood - red worms attached to the inner surface of the windpipe of a pheasant 78. b c d , Veiled shells ; ef , cockles ; g , Pinna frágilis ; h , Carinària ví trea ; i , Venus Chiòne ; k , Nerita canrèna ;, Trochus 58389 34 36 40 ...
... Minute blood - red worms attached to the inner surface of the windpipe of a pheasant 78. b c d , Veiled shells ; ef , cockles ; g , Pinna frágilis ; h , Carinària ví trea ; i , Venus Chiòne ; k , Nerita canrèna ;, Trochus 58389 34 36 40 ...
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... minute size ; being the smallest fish I have any knowledge of . Compared with the min- now , it is minute ; and , placed by the side of the mighty whale , - " That sea - beast , which God of all his works Created hugest , that swim the ...
... minute size ; being the smallest fish I have any knowledge of . Compared with the min- now , it is minute ; and , placed by the side of the mighty whale , - " That sea - beast , which God of all his works Created hugest , that swim the ...
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... minute ganglia from which fresh ramifica- tions of nerves proceed . The faculty which the nervous system exercises , is to receive and transmit the impressions of external objects to the brain ; where they may be rendered sensible to ...
... minute ganglia from which fresh ramifica- tions of nerves proceed . The faculty which the nervous system exercises , is to receive and transmit the impressions of external objects to the brain ; where they may be rendered sensible to ...
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... minute vessels of the branchiæ form a beautiful net- work , similar to that on the branchial leaves of bivalves . The heart has been seen pulsating in several Mollúsca whose bodies possess a considerable degree of transparency . The ...
... minute vessels of the branchiæ form a beautiful net- work , similar to that on the branchial leaves of bivalves . The heart has been seen pulsating in several Mollúsca whose bodies possess a considerable degree of transparency . The ...
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... minute tubers , which fix themselves on the roots of trees and extract their juices . Similar tuberiferous fibres are copiously produced on the subterraneous stem be- tween the imbricated scales . The tubers , though not larger than a ...
... minute tubers , which fix themselves on the roots of trees and extract their juices . Similar tuberiferous fibres are copiously produced on the subterraneous stem be- tween the imbricated scales . The tubers , though not larger than a ...
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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...