The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... difficulty , by goring him most cruelly with the hawkuss ( an iron instrument ) , that the mohout ( driver ) could get him to venture on the bridge , the strength of which he first tried with his trunk , shewing clearly that he ...
... difficulty , by goring him most cruelly with the hawkuss ( an iron instrument ) , that the mohout ( driver ) could get him to venture on the bridge , the strength of which he first tried with his trunk , shewing clearly that he ...
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... difficulty of eradicating a false statement in Natural History is quite remarkable ; and ought to operate as a striking example of the mischief of repeating assertions which are unsupported by distinct evidence . Thus , the greater ...
... difficulty of eradicating a false statement in Natural History is quite remarkable ; and ought to operate as a striking example of the mischief of repeating assertions which are unsupported by distinct evidence . Thus , the greater ...
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... difficulty in a natural state ; and is endued with every requisite bodily activity and men- tal energy , for the enjoyment of existence in as great perfection of content as the squirrel which leaps from tree to tree , or the wild horse ...
... difficulty in a natural state ; and is endued with every requisite bodily activity and men- tal energy , for the enjoyment of existence in as great perfection of content as the squirrel which leaps from tree to tree , or the wild horse ...
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... difficulty . Bernier himself describes a remarkable accident which he witnessed , proceeding from this mode of compelling the elephant to a labour for which he is unfitted by nature : - " The King ( Aurengzebe ) was ascending the Peer ...
... difficulty . Bernier himself describes a remarkable accident which he witnessed , proceeding from this mode of compelling the elephant to a labour for which he is unfitted by nature : - " The King ( Aurengzebe ) was ascending the Peer ...
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... difficulty of exactly understanding its mode of opera- tion ; for " we do not find any part without a bone except this , that is spontaneously protruded or pro- longed , and so kept for some time * . " The centre of the trunk is pierced ...
... difficulty of exactly understanding its mode of opera- tion ; for " we do not find any part without a bone except this , that is spontaneously protruded or pro- longed , and so kept for some time * . " The centre of the trunk is pierced ...
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Africa African elephant amongst ancient animal appears army Arrian Aurengzebe battle beasts Bernier body bones of elephants Cæsar carried Carthaginians century chap command Corse covered Cuvier danger described Diodorus Siculus earth elephant's Emperor employed enemy exhibited extraordinary feet female elephant fight fire foot force forests fossil gold habits head herd Hindostan horse Hottentots hundred hunters hunting immense inclosure Indian Indian elephant ivory keddah keeper killed king Kublai Khan length lion Livy male elephants menageries mode Mogul mohout mounted muscles native nature obedience passage Pausanias peculiar phants Phidias Pliny pomp possessed princes proboscis quadrupeds Quatremère de Quincy remains remarkable rhinoceros riders river Roman Rome round sagacity says sculpture shew side skull species splendour Sports statuary teeth terror thousand tiger tion Travels trees troops trunk tusks white elephant wild elephants wood wounded young
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Page 318 - Syria was thy merchant By reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making : They occupied in thy fairs With emeralds, purple, and broidered work, And fine linen, and coral and agate.
Page 318 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Page 383 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That He who made it and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 66 - THE first shall be of the elephant, whereof there generally passeth an opinion it hath no joints; and this absurdity is seconded with another, that being unable to lie down it sleepeth against a tree; which the hunters observing, do saw it almost asunder, whereon the beast relying, by the fall of the tree falls also down itself, and is able to rise no more.
Page 182 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 39 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Page 205 - Makkah, and would have entered it, the elephant on which he rode, which was a very large one, and named Mahmud, refused to advance any nigher to the town, but knelt down whenever they endeavoured to force him that way, though he would rise and march briskly enough if they turned him towards any other quarter : and while matters were in this posture, on a sudden a large flock of birds, like swallows, came flying from the sea-coast, every one of which carried three stones, one in each foot, and one...
Page 76 - Trampling his path through wood and brake, And canes which crackling fall before his way, And tassel-grass, whose silvery feathers play O'ertopping the young trees, On comes the Elephant, to slake His thirst at noon in yon pellucid springs. Lo! from his trunk upturn'd, aloft he flinys The grateful shower ; and now Plucking the broad-leaved bough Of yonder plane, with wavey motion slow, Fanning the languid air, He moves it to and fro.
Page 311 - Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia.
Page 97 - ... that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to the top, if the animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular succession under his feet. Permission having been obtained from the...