Scripture Natural History: Containing a Descriptive Account of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Serpents, Plants, Trees, Minerals, Gems, and Precious Stones, Mentioned in the BibleLincoln, Edmands & Company, 1833 - 408 страници |
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... body , covered with a callous hide , without hair ; its large missha- pen legs , that seem scarcely formed for motion ; its little eyes , large ears , and long trunk , all give it an air of extreme stupidity . But our prejudices will ...
... body , covered with a callous hide , without hair ; its large missha- pen legs , that seem scarcely formed for motion ; its little eyes , large ears , and long trunk , all give it an air of extreme stupidity . But our prejudices will ...
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... body . But though their minuteness may at first sight appear deformed , yet , when we come to examine them , they are seen to exhibit a variety of expression , and to discover the va- rious sensations with which it is moved . It turns ...
... body . But though their minuteness may at first sight appear deformed , yet , when we come to examine them , they are seen to exhibit a variety of expression , and to discover the va- rious sensations with which it is moved . It turns ...
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... body . It is capable of being moved in every direction , of being lengthened and shortened , of being bent or straightened , so pliant as to embrace any body it is applied to , and yet so strong that nothing can be torn from its gripe ...
... body . It is capable of being moved in every direction , of being lengthened and shortened , of being bent or straightened , so pliant as to embrace any body it is applied to , and yet so strong that nothing can be torn from its gripe ...
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... body , and very thinly scattered over the rest of the skin ; but in general the hide is dry , rough , and wrinkled , and resembles more the bark of an old tree than the skin of an animal . This grows thicker every year ; and , by a ...
... body , and very thinly scattered over the rest of the skin ; but in general the hide is dry , rough , and wrinkled , and resembles more the bark of an old tree than the skin of an animal . This grows thicker every year ; and , by a ...
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... body . It can go , in its ordinary pace , as fast as a horse at an easy trot ; and , when pushed , it can move as swiftly as a horse at full gallop . It can travel with ease fifty or sixty miles a day ; and when hard pressed , almost ...
... body . It can go , in its ordinary pace , as fast as a horse at an easy trot ; and , when pushed , it can move as swiftly as a horse at full gallop . It can travel with ease fifty or sixty miles a day ; and when hard pressed , almost ...
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Страница 109 - AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, •** so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ' My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?
Страница 191 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Страница 71 - Therefore they shall come and • sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
Страница 220 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron ; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Страница 98 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Страница 300 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
Страница 266 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Страница 324 - Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people. Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Страница 143 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Страница 98 - The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-press.