Harry and Lucy Concluded: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, Volume 3 |
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Page 89 - For two hundred years his definition of a network as "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections
Page 37 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
Page 36 - Herbal," giving an account of the miraculous origin of the Solan Goose. It runs : " But what our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare.
Page 38 - Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree Goose : which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoyning do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence.
Page 38 - Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose ; which place aforesaid and all those parts adjoining do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfy them by the testimony of good witnesses " (Gerarde's " Herbal,
Page 37 - ... shells, in shape like those of the Muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the...
Page 37 - ... to the shape and form of a bird : when it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the aforesaid lace or string; ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out ; and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after, it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers...
Page 40 - Lucy said this was natural for ignorant peasants; "but for naturalists, mamma, and people who write great books, think of their believing that a great goose, which weighs (I have it written down here) about five pounds, and measures more than two feet in length, and nearly four feet and a half in breadth, "came out of this little shell." "But Lucy," said her mother, " I do not think that is the incredible part of the story.
Page 278 - You are come against us,' they used to shout from their encampment, ' You are come against us from the North, and from the East, and from the West ; but we will destroy you.
Page 142 - This fact, of their doing without a keystone, reminds me of what rny father said, that there is no mystery in the key-stone. He laughed at me for the rout we made about it, as if there was something magical in it. He said that each stone might be considered as a key-stone, if it were put in last ; but that it was more convenient to load the wooden centres equably, by working from the buttments up to the middle or crown of the arch." Lucy returned to her skein of silk, and Harry, with his elbows on...