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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 33 - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
الصفحة 12 - To us invifible, or dimly feen In thefe thy loweft works ; yet thefe declare Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 36 - The time of incubation continues twelve days ; at the end of which the young ones appear, much about the size of a bluebottle fly. They are at first bare ; by degrees they are covered with down ; and, at last, feathers succeed, but less beautiful at first than those of the old ones.
الصفحة 67 - The relations then took home the body, and enclosing it in the wooden figure of a man, placed it in the catacombs. Another method of embalming, was injecting turpentine of cedar with a pipe into the body without cutting it; they then salted it for seventy days, and afterwards drew out the pipe, which brought along with it the intestines.
الصفحة 67 - ... with the form and appearance of the whole body, were fo well preferved, that they might be known by their features : whence many of the Egyptians kept the bodies of their a-nceftors in...
الصفحة 28 - ... from the point of the bill to the extremity of the tail. " To add to the singularity of this bird...
الصفحة 53 - From thee to Nothing. — On fuperior pow'rs Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void...
الصفحة 41 - ... his powers and attuning his organs; by degrees the sound opens and swells, it bursts with loud and vivid flashes, it flows with smooth volubility, it faints and murmurs, it shakes with rapid and violent articulations; the soft breathings of love and joy are poured from...
الصفحة 49 - ... they lie lurking among reeds, to surprise cattle and other animals. In Jamaica, and many parts of the continent, they are found about twenty feet in length : they cannot be more terrible in their aspect, than they are formidable and mischievous in their natures, sparing neither man nor beast they can surprise, pulling them down under water, that, being dead, they may with greater facility, and without a struggle or resistance devour them.
الصفحة 19 - ... tail, whilst making its way into the earth, its resistance is so great, that it will sometimes leave it in the hands of its pursuers. To avoid this, the hunter has recourse to artifice...