A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, 第 1 卷

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第 199 頁 - grown, and whose death was occasioned by his being turned into his box, which had been washed, while it was yet damp, was a Hare of great humor and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not to be tamed at all; and
第 199 頁 - spring forward, and bite. He was, however, very entertaining in his way; even his surliness was matter of mirth, and in his play he preserved such an air of gravity, and performed his feats with such a solemnity of manner, that in him too I had an agreeable companion.
第 139 頁 - To Europeans! who will tie thee close, who will beat thee, who will render thee miserable! Return with me, my beauty! my jewel! and rejoice the hearts of my children." Then, springing on the back of the animal, he was out of sight in a moment.
第 198 頁 - the poet, has given an amusing account of three of them, which he kept for some years:—" I undertook," says he, " the care of three, which it is necessary that I should here distinguish by the names I gave them—Puss, Tiney,
第 107 頁 - Copper-coloured, choleric, erect . American. Hair black, straight, thick; nostrils wide ; face harsh; beard scanty; obstinate, content, free. Paints himself with fine red lines. y. Fair, sanguine, brawny. European. Hair yellow, brown, flowing; eyes blue; gentle, acute, inventive. Covered with close vestments. Governed by laws.
第 22 頁 - conspicuous. In the northern regions it has left the carcasses of some large quadrupeds, which the ice had arrested, and which are preserved even to the present day, with their skin, their hair, and their flesh. If they had not been frozen as soon as killed, they must have been quickly
第 81 頁 - of April, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. I was alone with the surgeon, but during the operation the room swarmed with human forms of every description, which crowded fast one on another; this continued till half past four o'clock, exactly the time when the digestion commences. I then observed that the figures began to move more slowly ; soon afterwards
第 163 頁 - or sward, was remarkably thin. At a moderate computation, she was allowed to have been the fruitful parent of three hundred Pigs; a prodigious instance of fecundity in so large a quadruped." To the singularities we have already related, we shall add another, which is, that the fat of the Hog is
第 169 頁 - was remarkably thin. At a moderate computation, she was allowed to have been the fruitful parent of three hundred Pigs; a prodigious instance of fecundity in so large a quadruped." To the singularities we have already related, we shall add another, which is, that the fat of the Hog is
第 81 頁 - about half past six o'clock all the figures were entirely white, and moved very little ; yet the forms appeared perfectly distinct; by degrees they became visibly less plain, without decreasing in number, as had often formerly been the case. The figures did not move off,

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