Peter Parley's FarewellS. Colman, 8 Astor House, 1840 - 324 pagine |
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Pagina 47
... Look at the foot - how ingeniously is this contrived ! Look at the arm : what piece of mechanism can compare with it ? But of all parts of the body , the eye is perhaps the most wonderful . It has in it , a lens , like that of a ...
... Look at the foot - how ingeniously is this contrived ! Look at the arm : what piece of mechanism can compare with it ? But of all parts of the body , the eye is perhaps the most wonderful . It has in it , a lens , like that of a ...
Pagina 84
... look about himself ? It would puzzle most of us to con- trive a remedy for this difficulty ; but Nature seems never at a loss . The eye ball stands out so far that more than half of it projects from the head ; and the muscles operate so ...
... look about himself ? It would puzzle most of us to con- trive a remedy for this difficulty ; but Nature seems never at a loss . The eye ball stands out so far that more than half of it projects from the head ; and the muscles operate so ...
Pagina 156
... look down upon the whole island of Sicily , as upon a map . You see numerous islands , some of them volcanic , and pouring forth their col- umns of smoke . You see vast tracts of the ocean , seeming to stretch out and mingle in the ...
... look down upon the whole island of Sicily , as upon a map . You see numerous islands , some of them volcanic , and pouring forth their col- umns of smoke . You see vast tracts of the ocean , seeming to stretch out and mingle in the ...
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