Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester

Front Cover
The Society, 1831 - Natural history
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 155 - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Page 275 - ... daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit.
Page 183 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air. Shew scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon...
Page 88 - Belgians, drawn thither by the love of war and plunder. These last, passing over from different parts, and settling in the country, still retain the names of the several states whence they are descended. The island is well peopled, full of houses built after the manner of the Gauls, and abounds in cattle.
Page 277 - Zoology (the Stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...
Page 156 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, And as horsemen, so shall they run.
Page 558 - THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATUTA, Translated from the abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, with NOTES, illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the Work.
Page 352 - The kidney-seed cotton — that is, a cotton which produces the seed all clustered together with a long strong staple extending from one side of the seeds, and which I believe to be the Brazilian or Pernambuco cotton, was tried, and was the only new species upon which there could have been any hesitancy ; but this too was given up, because not as valuable, and not as productive. I have given the names of gentlemen, because I had no other means of establishing facts.
Page 322 - ... enabled to increase his little manufacturing establishment in Bolton, namely, of spinning and weaving. He was prevailed upon also to sit to a London artist for his portrait, which is now in my possession. He was left a widower when his children were very young, and his only daughter kept his little cottage in King-street, Bolton, where he died, and where she is now (1829) living.
Page 131 - ... stage were conducted in twentyfive pear orchards. In these experiments lime-sulphur solution was the only spray applied since this had proven the most efficient of all the materials used in the previous tests on psylla eggs. Applications of the mixture in the different orchards were made...

Bibliographic information