Six Thousand Years Ago, Or, the Works of Creation IllustratedBinns and Goodwin, 1844 - 168 páginas |
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... Domestic Cock you are well ac- quainted ; it is supposed he was first brought from Persia , and it is certain he is found wild on the coasts of Malabar : it is a singular fact that while with us the bones when boiled are white , in ...
... Domestic Cock you are well ac- quainted ; it is supposed he was first brought from Persia , and it is certain he is found wild on the coasts of Malabar : it is a singular fact that while with us the bones when boiled are white , in ...
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... domestic state , that nearly 15,000 may , in the space of four years , be produced from a single pair . From their attachment to home , these birds are frequently employed for the purpose of conveying intelligence from place to place ...
... domestic state , that nearly 15,000 may , in the space of four years , be produced from a single pair . From their attachment to home , these birds are frequently employed for the purpose of conveying intelligence from place to place ...
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... domestic , has many qualities that render him exceedingly amusing . " Busy , inquisitive , and impudent , he goes everywhere , affronts the dogs and teazes the poultry , while he is most assiduous in culti- vating the favour of the cook ...
... domestic , has many qualities that render him exceedingly amusing . " Busy , inquisitive , and impudent , he goes everywhere , affronts the dogs and teazes the poultry , while he is most assiduous in culti- vating the favour of the cook ...
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... domestic , but a large proportion are still untamed and wild . " All the species are distinguished by a strong flat bill , furnished at the end with an additional piece , termed a nail , and marked at the edge with lamellæ or teeth ...
... domestic , but a large proportion are still untamed and wild . " All the species are distinguished by a strong flat bill , furnished at the end with an additional piece , termed a nail , and marked at the edge with lamellæ or teeth ...
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... strength to capture it . The Goose , in its domestic state , exhibits a variety of colours ; it is a bird evidently susceptible of strong * Buffon , p . 123 . 78 attachments , and , amongst all the inhabitants of THE SWAN . 77.
... strength to capture it . The Goose , in its domestic state , exhibits a variety of colours ; it is a bird evidently susceptible of strong * Buffon , p . 123 . 78 attachments , and , amongst all the inhabitants of THE SWAN . 77.
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Página 85 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Página 158 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Página 33 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Página 13 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
Página 84 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 160 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Página 159 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Página 158 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee.
Página 14 - There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Página 29 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.