The New International Encyclopaedia, Nide 19Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby Dodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... species are known , all American and nearly all tropical . Only five species occur as far north as the United States and only two of these reach Canada . They are all birds of moderate or small size , six to eight inches long or less ...
... species are known , all American and nearly all tropical . Only five species occur as far north as the United States and only two of these reach Canada . They are all birds of moderate or small size , six to eight inches long or less ...
Sivu 31
... species , with a very peculiar geographical distribution , as two species are found in South America , two in Central America , and one in the DENTITION OF A TAPIR . Malayan region . The best known is the ' American ' tapir ( Tapirus ...
... species , with a very peculiar geographical distribution , as two species are found in South America , two in Central America , and one in the DENTITION OF A TAPIR . Malayan region . The best known is the ' American ' tapir ( Tapirus ...
Sivu 34
... species ( Taran- tula fasciventris ) of European wolf - spiders ( Lycosida ) , the bite of which was supposed to be fatal or at least to be followed by very serious THE TRUE TARANTULA . symptoms . As a matter of fact the bite of this ...
... species ( Taran- tula fasciventris ) of European wolf - spiders ( Lycosida ) , the bite of which was supposed to be fatal or at least to be followed by very serious THE TRUE TARANTULA . symptoms . As a matter of fact the bite of this ...
Sivu 36
... species of Vicia , weak climbing plants , natives of the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere . One of these , the wild vetch ( Vicia hirsuta ) , has very small flowers and pods , pinnate leaves , and small leaf- lets . It affords ...
... species of Vicia , weak climbing plants , natives of the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere . One of these , the wild vetch ( Vicia hirsuta ) , has very small flowers and pods , pinnate leaves , and small leaf- lets . It affords ...
Sivu 45
... species scattered about the tropical world , represents the isospondylous fam- ily Elopida . This fish is regarded by many ang- lers as affording sport with a rod and line su- perior to that given by any other fish . The tar- pon ( see ...
... species scattered about the tropical world , represents the isospondylous fam- ily Elopida . This fish is regarded by many ang- lers as affording sport with a rod and line su- perior to that given by any other fish . The tar- pon ( see ...
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Sivu 318 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Sivu 178 - There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital - a mien as dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist of Vanity Fair admired in high places?
Sivu 205 - The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man, save those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations.
Sivu 332 - ... the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Sivu 394 - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
Sivu 191 - Let me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be.
Sivu 318 - It happened that, on a public day, a celebrated beauty of those times was in the cross bath, and one of the crowd of her admirers took a glass of the water in which the fair one stood, and drank her health to the company. There was in the place a gay fellow half fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore, though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast. He was opposed in his resolution; yet this whim gave foundation to the present honour which is done to the lady we mention in our liquors,...
Sivu 395 - The classic definition of a trade union is that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1894. They defined a trade union as "a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment".
Sivu 313 - Where real estate is vested in any person without a right in any other person to take by survivorship it shall, on his death, notwithstanding any testamentary disposition, devolve to and become vested in his personal representatives or representative from time to time as if it were a chattel real vesting in them or him.
Sivu 123 - TEN'DON is the term employed in Anatomy to designate the white fibrous tissue reaching from the end of a muscle to bone or some other structure which is to serve as a fixed attachment for it, or which it is intended to move. In accordance with their form, tendons have been divided into the three following varieties: (1) Funicular, or rope-like, as the long tendon of the biceps muscle of the arm ; (2...