The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... passages shew the extent of the popular notion ; to refute which Sir T. Brown appeals to experience , " whereof not many years past we have had the advantage in England , by an elephant shewn in many parts thereof , not only in the ...
... passages shew the extent of the popular notion ; to refute which Sir T. Brown appeals to experience , " whereof not many years past we have had the advantage in England , by an elephant shewn in many parts thereof , not only in the ...
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... passage to India had gradually led to the es- tablishment of European settlements in the East . In this way the French king had an elephant at Versailles , which came from Congo , and which died in 1681. Thamas Kouli Khan , in 1741 ...
... passage to India had gradually led to the es- tablishment of European settlements in the East . In this way the French king had an elephant at Versailles , which came from Congo , and which died in 1681. Thamas Kouli Khan , in 1741 ...
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... passage ; the females and younger part of the herd follow in his wake in single file : and in this manner a path is cleared through the densest woods and forests , such as it would take the pioneers of an army no small labour to ...
... passage ; the females and younger part of the herd follow in his wake in single file : and in this manner a path is cleared through the densest woods and forests , such as it would take the pioneers of an army no small labour to ...
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... passage in the same amusing book , where the writer , describing a cavity in a rock , says , " it was as high as an elephant . " The African species is generally larger than the Indian , Mr. Pringle informs us , that he met with an ...
... passage in the same amusing book , where the writer , describing a cavity in a rock , says , " it was as high as an elephant . " The African species is generally larger than the Indian , Mr. Pringle informs us , that he met with an ...
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... passage in Job which , principally upon the authority of Bochart , has been applied to the hippopotamus , is considered by many learned commentators as referring to the elephant . The fol- lowing words certainly describe , with great ...
... passage in Job which , principally upon the authority of Bochart , has been applied to the hippopotamus , is considered by many learned commentators as referring to the elephant . The fol- lowing words certainly describe , with great ...
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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...