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... quadrupeds there must be added several that are anomalous . Some have a long snout , with feet which are divided into many claws , and are fur- nished with teeth ; there are eight or nine sorts of these , whereof the hedge - hog is in ...
... quadrupeds there must be added several that are anomalous . Some have a long snout , with feet which are divided into many claws , and are fur- nished with teeth ; there are eight or nine sorts of these , whereof the hedge - hog is in ...
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... quadrupeds that are fliers too , as the bat kind , whereof there are different forms . There is one very odd anomaly , which has but three claws on each of his four feet , and has a namesake , too often among those that go not upon four ...
... quadrupeds that are fliers too , as the bat kind , whereof there are different forms . There is one very odd anomaly , which has but three claws on each of his four feet , and has a namesake , too often among those that go not upon four ...
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... quadrupeds would be a large field for curiosity and admiration . Galen remarked a singular provision of nature for the strength of the lion , that his bones are much more solid than those of other animals . Mr. Ray , inquiring how so ...
... quadrupeds would be a large field for curiosity and admiration . Galen remarked a singular provision of nature for the strength of the lion , that his bones are much more solid than those of other animals . Mr. Ray , inquiring how so ...
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... quadrupeds obliges us to employ ours in a particular contemplation of it ; it is lar- ger in us than in them , no doubt for the accom- modation of a nobler guest , which we entertain in ours : but an exact anatomist of that part , the ...
... quadrupeds obliges us to employ ours in a particular contemplation of it ; it is lar- ger in us than in them , no doubt for the accom- modation of a nobler guest , which we entertain in ours : but an exact anatomist of that part , the ...
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... quadrupeds , and their branching into the rete mirabile , and some other such things , are particu lar accommodations to their circumstances , to prevent a too rapid incursion of blood into the brains of creatures that hang down so much ...
... quadrupeds , and their branching into the rete mirabile , and some other such things , are particu lar accommodations to their circumstances , to prevent a too rapid incursion of blood into the brains of creatures that hang down so much ...
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Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
Page 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...