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... lakes , feeding on insects and worms . It builds its nest pen- dent from the branch of a tree or bush which overhangs the water . ' I found it in Java , in one of the most distant and inaccessible parts covered with extensive forests ...
... lakes , feeding on insects and worms . It builds its nest pen- dent from the branch of a tree or bush which overhangs the water . ' I found it in Java , in one of the most distant and inaccessible parts covered with extensive forests ...
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... lakes or swamps , or the grassy borders of sluggish streams with muddy bottoms , are favourite haunts , and there they ... Lake Winnipeg . The last - named author often saw small collections of fresh - water mussel - shells ( Unio ) , on ...
... lakes or swamps , or the grassy borders of sluggish streams with muddy bottoms , are favourite haunts , and there they ... Lake Winnipeg . The last - named author often saw small collections of fresh - water mussel - shells ( Unio ) , on ...
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... lake of the same name . The principal rivers of Mysia were the Caicus in the south and the sepus in the north ; the smaller ones were the Evenus and the Granicus . The country now forms part of the Turkish province of Anadoli ...
... lake of the same name . The principal rivers of Mysia were the Caicus in the south and the sepus in the north ; the smaller ones were the Evenus and the Granicus . The country now forms part of the Turkish province of Anadoli ...
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... lakes , rivers , and marshes ; all these conditions seem favourable to it . Dr. Vanbeneden gives the following localities : -the Caspian Sea , the Black Sea , and the Baltic , the Danube , the Wolga , and the Rhine , where they are ...
... lakes , rivers , and marshes ; all these conditions seem favourable to it . Dr. Vanbeneden gives the following localities : -the Caspian Sea , the Black Sea , and the Baltic , the Danube , the Wolga , and the Rhine , where they are ...
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... Lake ( Egypt ) 335 ] Melinda , 81 Meliphaga [ Meliphagida ] Meliphagidae , 81 Menzikoff , Prince ( Peter Great ] Mephites [ Badger , vol . m , ş 262 ; Skurk ] Mephitic Air [ Carbonic Ac Mélita , 83 Melitæa , 83 Melithreptus ...
... Lake ( Egypt ) 335 ] Melinda , 81 Meliphaga [ Meliphagida ] Meliphagidae , 81 Menzikoff , Prince ( Peter Great ] Mephites [ Badger , vol . m , ş 262 ; Skurk ] Mephitic Air [ Carbonic Ac Mélita , 83 Melitæa , 83 Melithreptus ...
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Page 393 - auter vie, whether there shall or shall not be any special occupant thereof, and whether the same shall be freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether the same shall be a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, are now devisable by a
Page 101 - provisions of an act of parliament. This board is composed of the speaker of the House of Commons, the chancellor of the exchequer, the master of the rolls, the lord-chief-baron of the Court of Exchequer, the accountant-general of the Court of Chancery, and the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank of England. The greater part of
Page 388 - the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Page 20 - if it did not actually prompt it. He says, ' the passions may be considerably operated upon, without presenting any image at all, by certain sounds adapted to that purpose, of which we have a sufficient proof in the acknowledged and powerful effects of instrumental music.
Page 194 - act of oblivion. For money given to a hungry courtier, Needham obtained his pardon under the great seal. He latterly practised as a physician among his party, but lived universally hated by the royalists, and now only committed harmless treasons with the College of Physicians, on whom he poured all that gall and
Page 201 - there appears to have been little either very remarkable or agreeable; but we have the testimony of Dr. Pemberton that ' neither his age nor his universal reputation had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated." Ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the effect of patient and continuous thought rather than to any
Page 194 - who had then started a second paper, called the ' Observator,' first exercised his authority as licenser of the press, by procuring to be issued a ' proclamation for suppressing the printing and publishing unlicensed news-books and pamphlets of news, because it has become a common practice
Page 10 - which seems to have escaped observation ; and that is, it takes its stand on the top of some stake or post, from whence it springs forth on its prey, catching a fly in the air, and hardly ever touching the ground, but returning still to the same stand for many times together.
Page 77 - Lives and Characters of the most eminent Writers of the Scottish Nation," fol., published at Edinburgh in 170822, informs us, but without mentioning any authority, that Napier passed some years in France, the Netherlands, and Italy, and that while absent
Page 20 - that, without the aid of spoken characters, many a story of deepest interest is most impressively told, many a noble or tender sentiment is most emphatically conveyed by it The power and expressiveness of music may well be regarded as a most beauteous adaptation of external nature to the moral constitution of man