 | 1837 - 654 páginas
...had rendered a large quantity so fragile, as hardly to admit of being touched ; others, prticularly those in the form of rolls, were so coagulated together,...these national records, a dog was employed in hunting the live rats, which were thus disturbed from their nests. It was impossible to prosecute any measure... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 páginas
...not be uncoiled. Six or seven perfect skeletons of rats (exhibited by the witness to the Committee) were found imbedded, and bones of these vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass' (Report, p. 427). After so racy a description, our readers will be prepared to hear of the minor evils... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 páginas
...not be uncoiled. Six or seven perfect skeletons of rats (exhibited by the witness to the Committee) were found imbedded, and bones of these vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass' (Report, p. 427). After so racy a description, our readers will be prepared to hear of the minor evils... | |
 | 1871 - 650 páginas
...not be uncoiled. Six or seven perfect skeletons of rats (exhibited by the witness to the Committee) were found imbedded, and bones of these vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass' (Report, p. 427). After so racy a description, our readers will be prepared to hear of the minor evils... | |
 | 1873 - 966 páginas
...centuries, all, when these operations commenced (the investigation into the state of the Records), were found to be very damp. Some were in a state of...vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass." Thus if we array in order the facts daily brought to light, but which, unhappily, drop out of men's... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 436 páginas
...centuries, all, when these operations commenced (the investigation into the state of the Records), were found to be very damp. Some were in a state of...vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass." Thus if we array in order the facts which are daily brought to light, but unhappily drop out of men's... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 486 páginas
...centuries, all, when these operations commenced (the investigation into the state of the Records), were found to be very damp. Some were in a state of...vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass." Thus if we array in order the facts -which are daily brought to light, but unhappily drop out of men's... | |
 | 1880 - 308 páginas
...There were numerous fragments which had only just escaped entire consumption by vermin, and many were m the last stage of putrefaction. Decay and damp had...charnel-house for the dead, during the first removal of theseNational Records, a dog was employed in hunting the live rats which were thus disturbed from their... | |
 | 1880 - 308 páginas
...that they could not be uncoiled. Six or seven perfect skeletons of rats were found imbcdded, ami hones of these vermin were generally distributed throughout...furnishing a charnel-house for the dead, during the first icmoval of thescNational Records.adog was employed in hunting the live rats which were thus disturbed... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - 1881 - 518 páginas
...not be uncoiled. Six or seven perfect skeletons of rats (exhibited by the witness to the Committee) were found imbedded, and bones of these vermin were generally distributed throughout the mass' (Report, p. 427). After so racy a description, our readers will be prepared to hear of the minor evils... | |
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... just escaped entire consumption by vermin; and many were in the last stage of putrefaction. Decay and damp had rendered a large quantity so fragile, as hardly to admit of being touched; others, particularly those in the form of rolls, were so coagulated... 
