 ... appearance less surprising, as it is sometimes seen in the Alps, and in all mountainous countries, with hardly any place for its feet upon the sides, and by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its...  Sporting Magazine - Page 351813Full view - About this book
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 428 pages
...its four feet ultimately remained until the Arab had euded his ditty, was only two inches ; and tho length of each cylinder was six inches. The most curious part of the performance occurred afterward ; for the Arab, to convinceusof the animal's attention to the turn of the air, interrupted... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 430 pages
...four feet ultimately remained until the Arab had ended his ditty, was only two inches ; and the ioigth of each cylinder was six inches. The most curious part of the performance occurred afterward; for the Arab, to convince us of the animal's attention to the turn of the air, 3n¡errupted... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - 490 pages
...their masters would bid them." Sandys' Travels, p. 126. Land. 1637. View of Bethlehem. THE HOLY LAND. thus poised may render its appearance less surprising,...part of the performance occurred afterwards ; for the Aral, to convince us of the animal's attention to the turn of the air, interrupted the da capo : as... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...sides and by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its feet ultimately remained until the Arab had ended...and the length of each cylinder was six inches." THE WEEK. JUNE 10. — Whit-Sunday. The commemoration of the feast of Pentecost. June 11. — W 'hit-Monday.... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1834 - 326 pages
...the sides and by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the cylinder on which its feet ultimately remained until the Arab had ended...and the length of each cylinder was six inches." THE IBEX. THE ibex is supposed by naturalists to be the original stock from which the common goat is descended.... | |
 | 1834 - 222 pages
...sides nnd by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its feet ultimately remained until the Arab had ended...only two inches, and the length of each cylinder was sis : DJ inches. SONNET. There is no remedy for time mispent, No healing for the waste of idleness,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...sides and by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its feet ultimately remained until the Arab had ended...inches, and the length of each cylinder was six inches." Never speak to deceive, nor listen to betray. Friendship once injured is for ever lost. Gossiping and... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - 1840 - 236 pages
...down the disjointed fab. ic " The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its four feet alternately remained until the Arab had ended his ditty, was only two inches, and the length of each six inches. The most curious part of the performance occurred afterwards ; for the Arab, to convince... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...sides and by the brink of most tremendous precipices. The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its feet ultimately remained until the Arab had ended...inches, and the length of each cylinder was six inches." Never speak to deceive, nor listen to betray. Friendship once injured is for ever lost. Gossiping and... | |
 | T B. M - 1844 - 274 pages
...The diameter of the upper cylinder, on which its feet ultimately remained until the Arab had finished his ditty, was only two inches, and the length of each cylinder was six inches." * George Sandys, a traveller and poet. He began his travels in the East in the year 1610. Speaking... | |
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