Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 2 of 6 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Vol. 2 of 6 Banquet, lessens the necessity of providing for it. But the meaner tribes of animals are made still more capable of sustaining life without food, many of them remaining in a state of torpid in difference till their prey approaches, when they jump upon and seize it. In this manner, the snake, or the spider, continue for several months together to subsist upon a single meal; and some of the butterfly kinds live upon little or nothing. But it is very different with man: his wants daily make their importunate demands; and it is known that he cannot continue to live many days with out eating, drinking, and sleeping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 2 In all birds, except nocturnal ones, the head is smaller, and bears less proportion to the body than in quadrupeds, that it may more readily divide the air in flying, and make way for the body, so as to render its passage more easy. Their eyes also are more flat and depressed than in quadrupeds a circle of small plates of bone, placed scalewise, under the outer coat of the organ, encompasses the pupil on each, to strengthen and defend it from injuries. Besides this, birds have a kind of skin, called the nictitating membrane, with which, like a vail, they can at pleasure cover their eyes, though their eye-lids continue open. This membrane takes its rise from the greater or more obtuse corner of the eye, and serves to wipe, cleanse, and probably to mois ten its surface. The eyes, though they out wardly appear but small, yet, separately, each almost equals the brain whereas in man the brain is more than twenty times larger than the orbit of the eye. Nor is this organ in birds less adapted for vision by a particular expansion of the optic nerve, which renders the impressions of external objects more vivid and distinct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 4 of 6 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 4 of 6 These names do not make two distinct kinds, but are only given to l variety of the same animal, which has, however, subsisted time imme morial. The principal, and perhaps the only sensible difference, by which those two races are distinguished, consists in this, that the camel has two bunches upon his back, whereas the dromedary has but one; the latter, also, is neither so large, nor so strong, as the camel. These two races, however, produce with each other, and the mixed breed formed between them is considered the best, the most patient, and the most indefatigable of all the kind. Of the two varieties, the dromedary is by far the most numerous, the camel being scarcely ever found, except in Turkey, and the countries of the Levant; while the other is found spread over all the deserts of Arabia, the southern parts of Africa, Persia, Tartary, and a great part of the eastern Indies. Thus the one inhabits an immense tract of country, the other, in comparison, is confined to a province; the one inhabits the sultry countries of the Torrid Zone, the other delights in a warm, but not a burning climate; neither, however, can subsist or propagate in the variable climates towards the north; they seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty, and water scarce where they can travel along the sandy desert without being impeded by rivers, and find food at expected distances; such a country is Ara bia, and this, of all others, seems the most adapted to the support and production of this animal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 2 of 2 Boon IV. Birds of the Poultry kind, 800! V. Birds of the Pie kind, 800: VI. Birds of the Sparrow kind, Boon VII. Birds of the Crane kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book An History of the Earth Vol 2 Of 4 written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An History of the Earth, Vol. 2 of 4: And Animated Nature As the food of ruminant animals is entirely of the vegetable kind, and as this is very eafily procured, fo thefe animals feem naturally more indolent and lefs artful than thofe of the car nivorous kinds; and as their appetites are more fimpie, their infiinfls feem to be lefs capable of variation. The fox or the wolf are for ever prowling their long habits of want give them a degree of {harpnefs and cunning; their life is a continued fcene of firatagem and efcape but the patient ox, or the deer, enjoy the repaft that nature has abundantly provided; certain of fubfifience, and content with fecurity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 6 of 6 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 6 of 6 LXXXIII. Ichneumon, Gad Fly, Tipula, Gnat, Common Ant, Terrace, or Ant of Africa, (king) Queen Ant pregnant, Labour er, Soldier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 1 of 6 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Vol. 1 of 6 The thing to its definition; whereas, ln the system of natural history, we are led from the definition to find out the name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 3 of 6 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 3 of 6 If we compare the natural habitudes of this class with the former, we shall find that the dog kinds are not so solitary as those of the cat, but love, to hunt in cmnpany, and encourage each other with their mutual cries. In this manner the dog and the jackall pursue their prey; and the wolf and fox, which are of this kind, though more solitary and silent among us, yet in coun tries where less persecuted, and where they more fearlessly display their natural inclinations, they are found to keep togetherdn packs, and pursue their game with alternate hnwlings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 3 Part II Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 3: Part II Every bird of this kind, habituated to marshy places, may be known, if not by the length of its legs, at least by the scaly sur. Face of them. Those who have observed the legs of a snipe or a woodcock, will easily perceive my meaning; and how different the surface of the skin that covers them is from that of the pigeon or the partridge. Most birds of this kind also, are bare of feathers half way up the thigh; at least, in all of them, above the knee. - Their long habits of wading in the waters, and hav ing their legs continually in moisture, prevents the growth of feathers on those parts; so that there is a surprising difference between the legs of a crane, naked of feathers almost up to the body, and the falcon, booted almost to the very toes. The bill is also very distinguishable in most of this class. It is, in general, longer than that of other birds, and in some finely fluted on every side while at the point it is possessed of extreme sensibility, and furnished with nerves, for the better feeling their food at the bottom of marshes, where it cannot be seen.' Some birds of this class are thus fitted with every convenience; they have long legs, for wading; long necks for stooping; long bills, for searching; and nervous points, for feeling. Others are not to amply provided for; as some have long bills, but legs of no great length; and others have long necks, but very short legs. It is a rule which universally holds, that where the bird's legs are long, the neck is also long in proportion. It would indeed be an incurable defect in the bird's conformation, to be lifted upon stilts above its food, without being furnished with an in strument to reach it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 2 of 2 written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 2 of 2: With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom, Translated From the French of Baron Cuvier; And Copious Notes Embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History Introductory book, viz chap. I. Of Birds in general, crap. II. Of the Generation, N'estling, and Incubation chap. III. Of the Division Of Birds, book 11. Of the Cassowary and Dodo, book III. Rapacious Birds, book IV. Birds of the Poultry kind, book V. Birds of the Pie kind, book VI. Birds of the Sparrow kind, book VII. Birds of the Crane kind, book VIII. Of tater-fowl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Vol. 3 The second class of carnivorous quadrupeds may be denominated those of the dog kind. This class is neither so numerous nor so powerful as the former, and yet neither so treacherous, rapacious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of the Earth and Animated Nature Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Vol. 1 The other classes are subdivided in a similar manner. We shall enumerate only the orders. The distinctions of the Am are taken chie y from the beak; but the tongue, nostrils, feet, and other parts, are sometimes called in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."