The British Museum, Historical and Descriptive ...W. and R. Chambers, 1850 - 432 pages |
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... period , science and scientific tastes have spread , museums have been established in most European cities of importance , much richer than those of which the ancient world could boast ; and even in comparatively modern America there ...
... period , science and scientific tastes have spread , museums have been established in most European cities of importance , much richer than those of which the ancient world could boast ; and even in comparatively modern America there ...
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... period to which history reaches back , the vast ter- ritory which these millions cover was divided into numerous states or kingdoms , each governed despotically by a hereditary sovereign or absolute lord of the soil , called a Rajah ...
... period to which history reaches back , the vast ter- ritory which these millions cover was divided into numerous states or kingdoms , each governed despotically by a hereditary sovereign or absolute lord of the soil , called a Rajah ...
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... period of its discovery by an immense number of tribes or nations , differing from each other according to the difference of climate , & c . in the portions of the continent which they respectively occupied , but possessing in common ...
... period of its discovery by an immense number of tribes or nations , differing from each other according to the difference of climate , & c . in the portions of the continent which they respectively occupied , but possessing in common ...
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... period over all the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans , from Madagascar on the coast of Africa , to the remote Sandwich Islands ; and that in some of these islands they found Austral aborigines , whom they either extirpated , or ...
... period over all the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans , from Madagascar on the coast of Africa , to the remote Sandwich Islands ; and that in some of these islands they found Austral aborigines , whom they either extirpated , or ...
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... period of British and Irish history may therefore be aptly designated as the Period of Druidism - a period which extended from imme- morial antiquity to the conquest of Britain by the Romans . This conquest was effected not by Cæsar ...
... period of British and Irish history may therefore be aptly designated as the Period of Druidism - a period which extended from imme- morial antiquity to the conquest of Britain by the Romans . This conquest was effected not by Cæsar ...
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Page 299 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 258 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 260 - We might have anticipated that the imbedding of the remains of birds in new strata would be of very rare occurrence, for their powers of flight insure them against perishing by numerous casualties to which quadrupeds are exposed during floods ; and if they chance to be drowned, or to die when swimming on the water, it will scarcely ever happen that they will be submerged so as to become preserved in sedimentary deposits.
Page 353 - The horses of the frieze in the Elgin collection appear to live and move, to roll their eyes, to gallop, prance, and curvet — the veins of their faces and legs seem distended with circulation; in them are distinguished the hardness and decision of bony forms, from the elasticity of tendon and the softness of flesh. The beholder is charmed with the deer-like lightness and elegance of their make, and although the relief is not above an inch from the back-ground, and they are so much smaller than...
Page 259 - That it was aquatic is evident from the form of its paddles ; that it was marine is almost equally so, from the remains with which it is universally associated ; that it may have occasionally visited the shore, the resemblance of its extremities to those of the turtle may lead us to conjecture; its motion, however, must have been very awkward on land ; its long neck must have impeded its progress through the water, presenting a striking contrast to the organization which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus...
Page 82 - Gold, silver, and copper, are found in their perfect state in the clefts of rocks, in the sides of mountains, or the channels of rivers. These were accordingly the metals first known, and first applied to use. But iron, the most serviceable of all, and to which man is most indebted, is never discovered in its perfect form ; its gross and stubborn ore must feel twice the force of fire, and go through two laborious processes, before it...
Page 172 - I sunk my bucket to a level with the dredge's mouth, and proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him or the sight of the bucket too terrific I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...
Page 198 - ... voraciously, devouring all the food that comes in its way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices ; for as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Page 299 - The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways : they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
Page 304 - I dug at once into the side of the mound, which was here very steep, and thus avoided the necessity of removing much earth. We came almost immediately to a wall •)•, bearing inscriptions in the same character as those already described ; but the slabs had evidently been exposed to intense heat, were cracked in every part, and, reduced to lime, threatened to fall to pieces as soon as uncovered.