The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Bind 2061916 |
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Side 611 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, And the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; The screech owl also shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, And hatch, and gather under her shadow : There shall the vultures also be gathered, Every one with her mate.
Side 602 - Institution, the income from a part of which was to be devoted to "the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of man.
Side 570 - Esquimaux use two lumps of common iron pyrites, from which sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity of the white floss of the seed of the ground willow is laid above the moss. As soon as a spark has caught, it is gently blown till the fire has spread an inch around, when, the pointed end of a piece of oiled wick being applied, it soon bursts into a flame, the whole process having...
Side 487 - A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE ON THE COMPARATIVE METHOD For the Student, Craftsman, and Amateur.
Side 616 - Other dwarf races of humanity, belonging to the white or the Mongolian species, may have inhabited Northern Europe in ancient times, or it is just possible that this type of pygmy negro which survives to-day in the recesses of inner Africa may even have overspread Europe in remote times.
Side 616 - The demeanor and actions of the little Congo dwarfs at the present day remind one over and over again of the traits attributed to the brownies and goblins of our fairy stories. Their remarkable power of becoming invisible by adroit hiding in herbage and behind rocks, their probable habits in sterile or open countries of making their homes in holes and caverns, their mischievousness and...
Side 420 - In this eastern field the basin of the Dnieper merged without abrupt transition into that of the Vistula, just as the basin of the Oder on the west had formed the western continuation of the Baltic plain. Four centuries of struggle with Russia ensued until the Muscovite Empire absorbed the greatest portion of Poland.
Side 451 - Czechs and Moravians thus found themselves bottled up inside the mountainous rim of their land by the Germans of Germany and of Austria. The German ring surrounding Bohemia is composed of sections representing various types of the Teutonic family. The southwestern element represents the Bavarian settlers from which it is descended. Farmers and woodsmen were introduced into the Bohmerwald as an inevitable phase of the exploitation of the mountainous area by religious communities of the 13th century....
Side 608 - Sgilti Yscawndroed, when he intended to go upon a message for his Lord, he never sought to find a path, but knowing whither he was to go, if his way lay through a wood he went along the tops of the trees. During his whole life, a blade of reed grass bent not beneath his feet, much less did one ever break, so lightly did he tread...
Side 399 - The consequence is that few Frenchmen or Germans of our day can lay claim to racial purity. As a matter of fact, northern France is perhaps more Teutonic than southern Germany, while eastern Germany is in some respects more Slavic than Russia.