| 1840 - 526 pages
...comparative anatomists speak in his own person. ' I at length found myself, as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...of comparative anatomy every bone and fragment of a bone resumed its place. I cannot find words to express the pleasure I experienced in seeing, when... | |
| Science - 1837 - 516 pages
...the principles upon which it proceeded. " Placed," he says, " in the midst of a great charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...animals, piled confusedly around me, the. task assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every bone,... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...re-constructing their skeletons. " I at length found myself," says he, " as if placed in a charnel house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...animals, piled confusedly around me ; the task assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every bone... | |
| Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...his occupation in restoring them : — " I at length found myself, as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...task assigned to me was to restore them all to their origina. positions. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every bone and fragment of a bone resumed... | |
| 1841 - 986 pages
...species belonging to many genera, ' I at length found myself,' says he, 'as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...animals piled confusedly around me : the task assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every bone,... | |
| Frederick John Francis - 1839 - 204 pages
...arrange and classify them, he continues thus: "I at length found myself as if placed in a charnelhouse, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...piled confusedly around me ; — the task assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of Compa* See Cuvier's Discourse... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 1046 pages
...comparative anatomists speak in his own person. ' I at length found myself, as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...of comparative anatomy every bone and fragment of a bone resumed its place. I cannot find words to express the pleasure I experienced in seeing, when... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 522 pages
...comparative anatomists speak in his own person. ' I at length found myself, as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred...their original position. At the voice of comparative analomy every bone and fragment of a bone resumed its place. I cannot find words to express the pleasure... | |
| Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 pages
...existence. " I at length found myself," says he, " as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutikted fragments of many hundred skeletons, of more than...animals, piled confusedly around me ; the task assigned me was, to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every... | |
| Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...surrounded by mutilated fragments of * Buckland's Bridgewater Treatise, Vol. I. pp. 344, 345. 22 E- Emany hundred skeletons, of more than twenty kinds of animals, piled confusedly around me ; the task assigned me was, to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, evenbone... | |
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