Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and ManagementGardeners' Chronicle, 1848 - 345 sidor |
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Sida viii
... Poultry has been too much undervalued as a means of study and a field of observation . Insignificant , and to us valueless wild animals , brought from a distance , about whose history and habits we can learn little or nothing viii PREFACE .
... Poultry has been too much undervalued as a means of study and a field of observation . Insignificant , and to us valueless wild animals , brought from a distance , about whose history and habits we can learn little or nothing viii PREFACE .
Sida ix
... observed . I can only say that the conclusion to which I have arrived respecting what is called the " origin " of our domestic races , has been , to my own mind , irresistible , having begun the investigation PREFACE . ix.
... observed . I can only say that the conclusion to which I have arrived respecting what is called the " origin " of our domestic races , has been , to my own mind , irresistible , having begun the investigation PREFACE . ix.
Sida x
... observed in certain families of the same aboriginal species , or sub - species , —no more : and that the whole world might be challenged to bring evidence ( such as would be admitted in an English court of justice ) that any permanent ...
... observed in certain families of the same aboriginal species , or sub - species , —no more : and that the whole world might be challenged to bring evidence ( such as would be admitted in an English court of justice ) that any permanent ...
Sida xiii
... observed that a sufficient number of lusus and hybrids have been produced , in the course of ages , to stock the world with an infinite variety of forms , had not that class of heterogeneous beings been in themselves of an unprolific ...
... observed that a sufficient number of lusus and hybrids have been produced , in the course of ages , to stock the world with an infinite variety of forms , had not that class of heterogeneous beings been in themselves of an unprolific ...
Sida 23
... observations tend to prove that a very considerable part of their nutriment is obtained from minute insects and molluscs . The sluggish , weedy waters , where Swans thrive best , abound with such crea- tures ; and the Whale is a ...
... observations tend to prove that a very considerable part of their nutriment is obtained from minute insects and molluscs . The sluggish , weedy waters , where Swans thrive best , abound with such crea- tures ; and the Whale is a ...
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Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History and Management Edmund Saul Dixon Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
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Sida 240 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Sida 26 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Sida 139 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Sida 167 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Sida 199 - ... would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality...
Sida 140 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Sida 200 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Sida 13 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Sida 327 - Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too!
Sida 257 - tried many experiments by breeding in-and-in, upon dogs, fowls, and pigeons; the dogs became from strong spaniels, weak and diminutive lapdogs; the fowls became long in the legs, small in the body, and bad feeders.