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... beautiful animals , the mere description of which in the pages of the traveller , the naturalist , or the sportsman , are of such absorbing interest . Strange to say , however , such is by no means generally the case ; and these ...
... beautiful animals , the mere description of which in the pages of the traveller , the naturalist , or the sportsman , are of such absorbing interest . Strange to say , however , such is by no means generally the case ; and these ...
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... beautiful and extraordinary animals are now exceed- ingly common , and every well - marked group in nature may be illustrated without having recourse to the rarer and more costly species . Carrying out these views , we should exhibit ...
... beautiful and extraordinary animals are now exceed- ingly common , and every well - marked group in nature may be illustrated without having recourse to the rarer and more costly species . Carrying out these views , we should exhibit ...
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... beautiful , and there is nothing to concentrate the attention on a special object . Distraction is produced also by the great size of the galleries , and the multiplicity of objects that strike the eye . It is almost impossible for a ...
... beautiful , and there is nothing to concentrate the attention on a special object . Distraction is produced also by the great size of the galleries , and the multiplicity of objects that strike the eye . It is almost impossible for a ...
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... beautiful slender lizard of Jurassic age , and a cast of the Pterodactyle with its wings . Another case contains some striking specimens of fishes , both in spirits and stuffed , with their skeletons , as well as some beautifully ...
... beautiful slender lizard of Jurassic age , and a cast of the Pterodactyle with its wings . Another case contains some striking specimens of fishes , both in spirits and stuffed , with their skeletons , as well as some beautifully ...
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... beautiful glass models of the sea - anemones and polyps . This systematic collection differs from the usual collec- tions exhibited in public museums in the following im- portant points . It is strictly limited to a series of typical ...
... beautiful glass models of the sea - anemones and polyps . This systematic collection differs from the usual collec- tions exhibited in public museums in the following im- portant points . It is strictly limited to a series of typical ...
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Page 453 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 455 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 452 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 454 - And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 368 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 434 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 322 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 435 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labor for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they...
Page 343 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 342 - And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct : neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.