The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... experience . Great care , according to Ælian , was paid to their health ; and * See Williamson's Oriental Field Sports , p.41 . the nicest discipline was used to extinguish whatever was ferocious THE ELEPHANT . Skeleton of the horse.
... experience . Great care , according to Ælian , was paid to their health ; and * See Williamson's Oriental Field Sports , p.41 . the nicest discipline was used to extinguish whatever was ferocious THE ELEPHANT . Skeleton of the horse.
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... According to Pliny , at the spectacles given by Germanicus , it was not an uncommon thing to see elephants hurl javelins in the air , and catch them in their trunks , fight with each other as gladiators , and then execute a Pyrrhic ...
... According to Pliny , at the spectacles given by Germanicus , it was not an uncommon thing to see elephants hurl javelins in the air , and catch them in their trunks , fight with each other as gladiators , and then execute a Pyrrhic ...
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... according to this writer , brought under dis- cipline by the greatest kindness , and by the indul- gence of varieties of food which were grateful to their palates ; and thus , he says , whatever was ferocious in their nature was ...
... according to this writer , brought under dis- cipline by the greatest kindness , and by the indul- gence of varieties of food which were grateful to their palates ; and thus , he says , whatever was ferocious in their nature was ...
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... According to the principles of perspective , a large object is not properly seen , unless we are removed to about three times the distance of its height and size . In a favourable situation , such as a large inclosure , or theatre ...
... According to the principles of perspective , a large object is not properly seen , unless we are removed to about three times the distance of its height and size . In a favourable situation , such as a large inclosure , or theatre ...
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... according to this great com- parative anatomist , is confined to that part of the nostrils which is enclosed in the bones of the head . The muscles of the trunk give to these two canals , which we have described , whatever inflexions ...
... according to this great com- parative anatomist , is confined to that part of the nostrils which is enclosed in the bones of the head . The muscles of the trunk give to these two canals , which we have described , whatever inflexions ...
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