Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of ManHenry G. Bohn, 1848 - 396 páginas |
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... instances , the most valuable part of the work which passes under the name of BUFFON : and they will retain this value , as the sterling coin bearing the stamp of nature ever does ; while the base metal of hypothesis and speculation ...
... instances , the most valuable part of the work which passes under the name of BUFFON : and they will retain this value , as the sterling coin bearing the stamp of nature ever does ; while the base metal of hypothesis and speculation ...
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... , in renouncing all force and violence , in endeavouring to fulfil literally the Gospel precepts of peace and goodwill , in active benevolence , in unremitted There are instances , in which whole tribes of human 80 ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.
... , in renouncing all force and violence , in endeavouring to fulfil literally the Gospel precepts of peace and goodwill , in active benevolence , in unremitted There are instances , in which whole tribes of human 80 ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.
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Sir William Lawrence. There are instances , in which whole tribes of human beings depend , for the supply of all their wants , on one or two species of animals . The Greenlander , and the Esquimaux of Labrador , placed in a region of ...
Sir William Lawrence. There are instances , in which whole tribes of human beings depend , for the supply of all their wants , on one or two species of animals . The Greenlander , and the Esquimaux of Labrador , placed in a region of ...
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... instances , in illustration of a truth so evident in itself . Many animals are known to us as objects of alarm and terror , or of considerable though less serious annoyance . Some are directly formidable by their strength and ferocity ...
... instances , in illustration of a truth so evident in itself . Many animals are known to us as objects of alarm and terror , or of considerable though less serious annoyance . Some are directly formidable by their strength and ferocity ...
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... instance , the more remarkable , as their existence has been generally denied , even by the greatest authorities in comparative anatomy . They consist in the porpoise of two white extremely slender filaments , which , although visible ...
... instance , the more remarkable , as their existence has been generally denied , even by the greatest authorities in comparative anatomy . They consist in the porpoise of two white extremely slender filaments , which , although visible ...
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Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural ... Sir William Lawrence Visualização integral - 1848 |
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Página 169 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Página 5 - MEYRICK'S PAINTED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANCIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR: A Critical Inquiry into Ancient Armour as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of Charles II.
Página 7 - STRUTT'S DRESSES AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time; with an Historical and Critical Inquiry into every branch of Costume.
Página 12 - Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Página 14 - Essays : On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; on the epithet Romantic ; on the aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion.
Página 168 - ... in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Página 10 - MANTELL'S GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION ROUND THE ISLE OF WIGHT, and along the adjacent Coast of Dorsetshire.
Página 158 - SPEECH, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves.
Página 5 - The author appears to us to have neglected no sources of information, and to have exhausted them, as far as regards the general scope and purpose of the inquiry. The graphical illustrations are such as become a work of tins character upon such a subject ; at, of course, a lavish cost.
Página 354 - Upon the whole, every circumstance concurs in proving that mankind are not composed of species essentially different from each other ; that, on the contrary, there was originally but one species...