| 1855 - 602 pagine
...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...gorgon, or chimaera dire," and yet so wondrously fitted toils work, that we must needs endure, for our own instruction, to handle and to look at it. Its name... | |
| 1855 - 624 pagine
...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...foul and monstrous to the eye as " hydra, gorgon, or chimsera dire," and yet so wondrously fitted to its work, that we must needs endure, for our own instruction,... | |
| 1855 - 632 pagine
...sufficient frost to freeze the gravel in the mornings, I employed the laborers in cleaning the ing done so ; for there lies an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as "hydra, gorgon, or chiwalks with a half worn out birch broom, uweepmaora dire," and yet so wondrously fitted to its i... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pagine
...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 1855.1 218 [Feb., having done so ; for there lies an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as " hydra,... | |
| 1856 - 430 pagine
...fishing line and a hook that surpasses the best sockdolager. Beneath the same stone we turned before " there lies an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as ' hydra, gorgon, or chimrera dire," and yet so wondronsly fitted to its work, that we must needs endure for our own instruction... | |
| 1869 - 748 pagine
...Kingsley, in his. cus, or the Wonders of the Shore," has graphically di this property in a \cmcrtcan. "There lies an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as 'hydni, gorgon, or chinuera dire,' and yet so wondrously fitted to its work, that we must needs endure... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 538 pagine
...liberty to do anything, he has liberty to search out freely his heavenly Father's works At all events, whether we were intruding or not in turning this stone,...foul and monstrous to the eye as ' Hydra, gorgon, or chimoera dire,' and yet so wondrously fitted to its work, that we must needs endure for our own instruction... | |
| Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley - 1877 - 528 pagine
...liberty to do anything, he has liberty to search out freely his heavenly Father's works At all events, whether we were intruding or not in turning this stone,...lies an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as ' 1 lydra, gorgon, or chimrera dire,' and yet so wondrously fitted to its work, that we must needs... | |
| 1881 - 790 pagine
...of finding specimens for his case, or vivarium, when he came upon an extraordinary long seaworm, ' an animal as foul and monstrous to the eye as Hydra, Gorgon, or chimera dire,' and yet so wonderfully fitted to its work, that we must needs endure, for our own instruction,... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 320 pagine
...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...foul and monstrous to the eye as " hydra, gorgon, or chimsera dire," and yet so wondrously fitted to its work, that we must needs endure for our own instruction... | |
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