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... colour of the plumage is gray , varying in some parts to grayish brown ; the rump and belly white , the tail grayish brown and white ; the bill is orange , the nail at the tip of the upper mandible white . The young are darker than the ...
... colour of the plumage is gray , varying in some parts to grayish brown ; the rump and belly white , the tail grayish brown and white ; the bill is orange , the nail at the tip of the upper mandible white . The young are darker than the ...
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... colour resemble of Britain , although now to be seen in hedges and black currants , are acid , with a very agreeable thickets almost everywhere . Some botanists have flavour , and make delicious tarts . The English goose- distinguished ...
... colour resemble of Britain , although now to be seen in hedges and black currants , are acid , with a very agreeable thickets almost everywhere . Some botanists have flavour , and make delicious tarts . The English goose- distinguished ...
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... colour , dotted with black , the cheeks white ; the hair is short ; the horns are short , inclined , recurved , and pointed . It is a wild and fleet animal , and when pursued , takes refuge in rocky heights . Its flesh is highly ...
... colour , dotted with black , the cheeks white ; the hair is short ; the horns are short , inclined , recurved , and pointed . It is a wild and fleet animal , and when pursued , takes refuge in rocky heights . Its flesh is highly ...
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... colour appears also in Hematococcus sanguineus , a nearly allied plant , found in similar situations , but which seems to extend more as an aggregation of cells , not soon melting down into an indefinite slime like the cells of the ...
... colour appears also in Hematococcus sanguineus , a nearly allied plant , found in similar situations , but which seems to extend more as an aggregation of cells , not soon melting down into an indefinite slime like the cells of the ...
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... colour . There is a want of scale about Italian sists mainly of terrace - like slopes of limestone formation , encircled by cliffs which are broken by coasts of the island , the eastern parts of which numerous deep fiords , more ...
... colour . There is a want of scale about Italian sists mainly of terrace - like slopes of limestone formation , encircled by cliffs which are broken by coasts of the island , the eastern parts of which numerous deep fiords , more ...
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Page 19 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 19 - Florence), and a protracted discussion took place, the chief points of which were the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 19 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Page 30 - I have so ruled my life, that when death came, I might face it without fear.
Page 12 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 19 - Viet. c. 96, no irregular marriage of that kind in Scotland is now valid unless one of the parties had at the date thereof his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for 21 days next preceding such marriage.
Page 30 - He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and a member of the Astronomical Society of London.
Page 30 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 30 - He accompanied the king after the battle to Oxford, where, according to the same authority, 'he came several times to our college (Trinity), to George Bathurst, BD, who had a hen to hatch eggs in his chamber, which they opened dayly to see the progress and way of generation...
Page 30 - The husband of an heiress is entitled to bear her arms in an escutcheon of pretence, ie, a small escutcheon in the centre of his paternal shield, and the children of an heiress may quarter her arms with their paternal coat. Neither practice is of very early introduction in heraldry. See MARSHALLING OF ARMS.