The Technologist. Ed. by P.L. Simmonds, Volume 7Peter Lund Simmonds 1773 |
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... fishing was plentiful . With the exception of three Symi boats , no other sponge fishing craft belonging to those ... fish on that coast . Common and coarse sponges being principally imported to France , several sponge merchants of ...
... fishing was plentiful . With the exception of three Symi boats , no other sponge fishing craft belonging to those ... fish on that coast . Common and coarse sponges being principally imported to France , several sponge merchants of ...
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... fish - now 122 days . But with all I have every confidence that we shall hatch out a great number of young salmon this time . " The hatching , of course , has commenced and this morn- ing I can count 98 infants and looking well , and ...
... fish - now 122 days . But with all I have every confidence that we shall hatch out a great number of young salmon this time . " The hatching , of course , has commenced and this morn- ing I can count 98 infants and looking well , and ...
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... fishing - lines , from different parts of this odd and ugly fish's face . Two barbels spring from the maxillary ; these are dilated at their bases into broad ribbon - like membranes , from each of which sprouts a single * From " Science ...
... fishing - lines , from different parts of this odd and ugly fish's face . Two barbels spring from the maxillary ; these are dilated at their bases into broad ribbon - like membranes , from each of which sprouts a single * From " Science ...
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... fish examined are two nearly empty sacs , with thick walls , as if the ova had just been excluded ; some of them ... fish , however , were about twenty eggs , * " Brit . Mus . Cat . " - Fishes , vol . v . , p . 173 . larger than a pea ...
... fish examined are two nearly empty sacs , with thick walls , as if the ova had just been excluded ; some of them ... fish , however , were about twenty eggs , * " Brit . Mus . Cat . " - Fishes , vol . v . , p . 173 . larger than a pea ...
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... fish , which bites away the bait without meddling with the hook , " writes Pliny . Sly soever as it may be , nevertheless it shows some remarkable traits of parental instincts ; papa and mamma sly Silurus both taking an active part in ...
... fish , which bites away the bait without meddling with the hook , " writes Pliny . Sly soever as it may be , nevertheless it shows some remarkable traits of parental instincts ; papa and mamma sly Silurus both taking an active part in ...
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Página 176 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Página 504 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Página 581 - But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Página 324 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 459 - If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith, how to think ; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse.
Página 498 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek...
Página 464 - If, for example, a man, through intemperance or extravagance, becomes unable to pay his debts, or, having undertaken the moral responsibility of a family, becomes from the same cause incapable of supporting or educating them, he is deservedly reprobated, and might be justly punished; but it is for the breach of duty to his family or creditors, not for the extravagance.
Página 495 - But our ideas being nothing but actual perceptions in the mind, which cease to be any thing when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Página 495 - This is memory, which is as it were the store-house of our ideas. For the narrow mind of man not being capable of having many ideas under view and consideration at once, it was necessary to have a repository to lay up those ideas, which at another time it might have use of.
Página 558 - This excessive passion for the sports of the field produced those evils which are apt to result from it ; a strenuous idleness, which disdained all useful occupations, and an oppressive spirit towards the peasantry. The devastation committed under the pretence of destroying wild animals, which had been already protected in their depredations, is noticed in serious authors, and has also been the topic of popular ballads.