Illustrations of Instinct Deduced from the Habits of British AnimalsLondon, 1847 - 343 Seiten |
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Illustrations of Instinct Deduced from the Habits of British Animals Jonathan Couch Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
able action animals appears attachment attention binding beam birds Blue Shark body British Birds brood cage caterpillars cause Chaffinch circumstances close colour common common Cuckoo concealment condition consciousness conveyed Cornwall creatures Cuckoo danger degree direction discovered display distance effect eggs endeavour enemies escape excited existence faculties feathers feeling Fieldfare fish flight goldcrest ground habits Hare hatched higher Hist human voice impression impulse inductive reasoning influence instances instinct kind known labour Lancelet latter less Libellula depressa Loudon's Mag manifestation manner migration mode motion nature neighbourhood nerves nest Newfoundland Dog object observed obtain organs parent peculiar Pliny portion possess prey principle proceeding propensity Quadrupeds reason Redwing remarkable rendered safety secure seems seen sensation Shanny shew shewn similar situation song soon soul sounds species Stickleback structure supposed swallow Thrush tion tribes utterance wild wings Yarrell young Zoologist
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 112 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Seite 107 - The organized world presents no contrasts and resemblances more remarkable than those which we discover on comparing mankind with the inferior tribes. That creatures should exist so nearly approaching to each other in all the particulars of their physical structure and yet differing so immeasurably in their endowments and capabilities, would be a fact hard to believe, if it were not manifest to our observation.
Seite 165 - A gentleman was engaged in the amusement of coursing, when a hare, closely pressed, passed under a gate, while the dogs followed by leaping over it. The delay caused to her pursuers by this manoeuvre seems to have taught a sudden and useful lesson to the persecuted creature ; for as soon as the dogs had cleared the gate and overtaken her, she doubled and returned under the gate as before, th0 dogs again following and passing over it.
Seite 108 - ... near is man in his physical constitution to the brutes. In all the principles of his internal structure, in the composition and functions of his parts, man is but an animal. The lord of the earth, who contemplates the eternal order of the universe, and aspires to communion with its invisible Maker, is a being composed of the same materials, and framed on the same principles, as the creatures which he has tamed to be the servile instruments of his will, or slays for his daily food.
Seite 206 - Selby, that during the early part of the summer of 1835, a pair of water-hens built their nest by the margin of the ornamental pond at Bell's Hill, a piece of water of considerable extent, and ordinarily fed by a spring from the height above, but into which the contents of another large pond can occasionally be admitted. This was done while the female was sitting ; and as the nest had been built when the...
Seite 264 - The most unnatural of all persecutions," says that close observer, James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, " that ever was raised in a country is that against the Mole : that innocent and blessed pioneer, who enriches our pastures with the first top-dressing, dug with great pains and labour from the fattest of the soil beneath. The advantages of this top-dressing are so apparent and so manifest to the...
Seite 323 - NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES. This Series of Works is Illustrated by many Hundred Engravings; every Species has been Drawn and Engraved under the immediate inspection of the Authors ; the best Artists have been employed, and no care or expense has been spared. A few Copies have been printed on Larger Paper.
Seite 270 - ... seeing the trial made, that we were at last forced to comply. We all three felt his pulse first — it was distinct, though small and thready, and his heart had its usual beating. He composed himself on his back, and lay in a still posture...
Seite 108 - The differences are everywhere striking : the resemblances are less obvious in the fulness of their extent, and they are never contemplated without wonder by those who, in the study of anatomy and physiology, are first made aware how near is man in his physical constitution to the brutes. In all the principles of his internal structure, in the composition and functions of his parts, man is but an animal. The lord of the earth, who contemplates the eternal order of the universe, and aspires to communion...
Seite 270 - By nine in the morning, in autumn, as we were going away, we observed some motion about the body, and upon examination found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning. He began to breathe heavily and speak softly. We were all astonished to the last degree at this unexpected change...