The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge, Volumen1Charles Knight, 1833 |
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... species after the popular or local name . By the scientific name the species is fote , on syde , on borde , now - on - daies , & c . , which thus occur in our old English poets . This on is an Anglo - Saxon pre - recognized in every ...
... species after the popular or local name . By the scientific name the species is fote , on syde , on borde , now - on - daies , & c . , which thus occur in our old English poets . This on is an Anglo - Saxon pre - recognized in every ...
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... Species , which are of constant occurrence in Zoology : these terms would otherwise be obscure or unintelligible to ... Species , the lowest link in the chain of scientific classification , and that which admits of no further division ...
... Species , which are of constant occurrence in Zoology : these terms would otherwise be obscure or unintelligible to ... Species , the lowest link in the chain of scientific classification , and that which admits of no further division ...
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... species in the same locality which has since produced the proteles ; but it is this latter species alone , which , uniting the characters of all these three genera , enables us to trace their natural affinities , and to assign to them ...
... species in the same locality which has since produced the proteles ; but it is this latter species alone , which , uniting the characters of all these three genera , enables us to trace their natural affinities , and to assign to them ...
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... species the name of Pro- teles Lalandii . He has done so , in the belief that the spe- cies has not been indicated by any previous traveller . We have considered it proper , however , to substitute the specific name of Proteles Cristala ...
... species the name of Pro- teles Lalandii . He has done so , in the belief that the spe- cies has not been indicated by any previous traveller . We have considered it proper , however , to substitute the specific name of Proteles Cristala ...
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... species which have the ventral fins placed behind the pectoral , or upon the abdomen , the cartilaginous fishes alone excepted ; which , after the example of Ray , Willoughby , and Artedi , he very properly considers as form- ing an ...
... species which have the ventral fins placed behind the pectoral , or upon the abdomen , the cartilaginous fishes alone excepted ; which , after the example of Ray , Willoughby , and Artedi , he very properly considers as form- ing an ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 49 - In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.
Página 194 - Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home ; that ye come not together unto condemnation.
Página 194 - When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper : and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
Página 170 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master."!
Página 115 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Página 128 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 287 - An Act to amend an act passed in the first year of his present majesty, to permit the general sale of beer and cider by retail in England.
Página 125 - One-third shall go to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead, to their representatives ; that is, their lineal descendants: if there are no children or legal representatives...
Página 129 - ... or sacrifice, performed. A woman, however, it is added, may not adopt a child without having her husband's consent ; and there is even some doubt if she may with that. ' He,' concludes the law, ' who has no son, or grandson, or grandson's son, or brother's son, shall' (may ?) ' adopt a son ; and while he has one adopted son, he shall not adopt a second.
Página 232 - ... man to tread on the surface of the earth, the eagle to soar in the expanse of the skies, and the monkey and squirrel to inhabit the trees: still these may change their relative situations without feeling much inconvenience: but the sloth is doomed to spend his whole life in the trees; and, what is more extraordinary, not upon the branches, like the squirrel and the monkey, but under them. He moves suspended from the branch, he rests suspended from it, and he sleeps suspended from it.