The Natural History Review, Volume 9Hodges & Smith, 1862 |
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... latter from the carnivore , man is at once too near and too distant from the higher mammalia - too near if we take into account those elevated faculties , which , raising man above all other organised beings , accord to him not only the ...
... latter from the carnivore , man is at once too near and too distant from the higher mammalia - too near if we take into account those elevated faculties , which , raising man above all other organised beings , accord to him not only the ...
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... latter qualities of the human foot , our author cites the boatmen of Ka - ching in China ; the weavers of Senegal ; the Brazilian horsemen , who put their feet to the same uses as those for which we employ hands ; the B 2 ST . HILAIRE ...
... latter qualities of the human foot , our author cites the boatmen of Ka - ching in China ; the weavers of Senegal ; the Brazilian horsemen , who put their feet to the same uses as those for which we employ hands ; the B 2 ST . HILAIRE ...
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... latter is much more of a foot than a hand . M. St. Hilaire's definition then seems as complete a failure as all the other attempts which have been made to justify the application of the title " four - handed " to the apes - a failure ...
... latter is much more of a foot than a hand . M. St. Hilaire's definition then seems as complete a failure as all the other attempts which have been made to justify the application of the title " four - handed " to the apes - a failure ...
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... latter are , not only from the lemurs and lowest Primates , but even from a great number of Marsupials . " So that here we find , on the one hand , man by himself - on the other , and separated from him by a vast interval , all the ...
... latter are , not only from the lemurs and lowest Primates , but even from a great number of Marsupials . " So that here we find , on the one hand , man by himself - on the other , and separated from him by a vast interval , all the ...
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... latter and conse- quently the considerable extent of the surface of the cerebrum , are , according to authors , the five principal characters by which the human brain is particularly dis- tinguished . These are , in fact , so many ...
... latter and conse- quently the considerable extent of the surface of the cerebrum , are , according to authors , the five principal characters by which the human brain is particularly dis- tinguished . These are , in fact , so many ...
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Página 118 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 130 - ... and the sitaris, therefore, at its first meal, relieves itself from its only rival. After eight days the egg is consumed, and on the empty shell the sitaris undergoes its first transformation, and makes its appearance in a very different form.
Página 31 - ... from one to five feet, and must also have projected from four to six feet above the water level, which cannot have been very different from what it is at present. They must, therefore, have had a length of from fifteen to thirty feet, and they were from three to nine inches in diameter. The pointed extremity which entered into the mud still bears the marks of the fire and the rude cuts made by the stone hatchets. The piles belonging to the Bronze period being prepared with metal axes, were much...
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Página 41 - And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads...
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