Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by NatureRoberts, 1885 - 533 pagine |
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Pagina 6
... mode of forming a continuous platform , and thus the raft is completed . It would not be long before the superior buoyancy of a hollow over a solid log would be discovered , and so , when the savage could not find a log ready hollowed ...
... mode of forming a continuous platform , and thus the raft is completed . It would not be long before the superior buoyancy of a hollow over a solid log would be discovered , and so , when the savage could not find a log ready hollowed ...
Pagina 7
... mode of progression , which it very often employs in warm weather . It ascends to the surface of the water , reverses its position so GNAT - EGG BOAT AND THREE EGGS . SEA - ANEMONE ACTING AS BOAT . WATER - SNAIL ACTING AS BOAT . 66 ...
... mode of progression , which it very often employs in warm weather . It ascends to the surface of the water , reverses its position so GNAT - EGG BOAT AND THREE EGGS . SEA - ANEMONE ACTING AS BOAT . WATER - SNAIL ACTING AS BOAT . 66 ...
Pagina 8
... mode of progression may often be seen in operation on the glass front of an aquarium . The same property of expansion and contraction enables the Sea - anemones to convert their bodies into boats , and float on the surface of the water ...
... mode of progression may often be seen in operation on the glass front of an aquarium . The same property of expansion and contraction enables the Sea - anemones to convert their bodies into boats , and float on the surface of the water ...
Pagina 12
... mode of aquatic progression employed by man which has not been previously carried out in the animal world . There are so many examples of this fact that I am obliged to select a very few typical instances in proof of the assertion ...
... mode of aquatic progression employed by man which has not been previously carried out in the animal world . There are so many examples of this fact that I am obliged to select a very few typical instances in proof of the assertion ...
Pagina 15
... mode of propulsion employed by the lobster , the prawns and shrimps , their tails expanding widely into a fan - like shape as they strike against the water , and then collapsing when the stroke is withdrawn , so as to allow them to pass ...
... mode of propulsion employed by the lobster , the prawns and shrimps , their tails expanding widely into a fan - like shape as they strike against the water , and then collapsing when the stroke is withdrawn , so as to allow them to pass ...
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Pagina 326 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Pagina 512 - Heedless he heard them; but disdain'd reply; The bow perusing with exactest eye. Then as some heavenly minstrel, taught to sing High notes responsive to the trembling string, To some new strain when he adapts the lyre, Or the dumb lute refits with vocal wire, Relaxes, strains, and draws them to and fro; So the great master drew the mighty bow: • And drew with ease. One hand aloft display'd The bending horns, and one the string essay'd.
Pagina 2 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught writh young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel...
Pagina 512 - Then, as some heavenly minstrel, taught to sing High notes responsive to the trembling string, To some new strain when he adapts the lyre, Or the dumb lute refits with vocal wire, Relaxes, strains, and draws them to and fro; So the great master drew the mighty bow, And drew with ease. One hand aloft display'd The bending horns, and one the string essay'd. From his essaying hand the string, let fly, Twang'd short and sharp like the shrill swallow's cry.
Pagina 315 - It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing: all these creatures have been observed to fall its prey.
Pagina 68 - ... fingers with a hot iron. Nevertheless, there was no remarkable appearance ; neither swelling, nor pustule, nor inflammation. The pain rapidly spread along the arm, as far as the armpit. I was then seized with frequent sneezing and with a copious running at the nose, as if I had caught a violent cold in the head. About noon...
Pagina 93 - ... uncouth and venomous beast, avoid a paroxysm of horror at the sight of the common house-spider. At all events, whether we were intruding or not, in turning this stone, we must pay a fine for having done so ; for there lies an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as "hydra, gorgon, or...
Pagina 257 - He had mounted along the side of thu window, nearly as high as the ceiling, a little below which he had begun to break through. The bed was covered with large pieces of plaster, the lath was exposed for at least fifteen inches...
Pagina 327 - 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...