| English literature - 1813 - 580 pages
...as to fit them for devouring theirprey; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh...organs of sense for discovering it at a distance. Hence any one who observes merely the print of a clown foot, may conclude that it has been left fcy... | |
| 1814 - 550 pages
...to fit them for devouring their prey ; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh...it; and the organs of sense for discovering it at a <ii*tance. Hence any one who observes merely the print of a cloven foot, may conclude that it has been... | |
| 1814 - 580 pages
...to fit them for devouring their prey ; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh...overtaking it; and the organs of sense for discovering it atadis»e. Hence any one who observes merely the print of a cloven foot, conclude that it has been... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier, Robert Jameson - Earth - 1817 - 394 pages
...constructed as to fit them for devouring prey ; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh...for pursuing and overtaking it ; and 'the organs of siense, for discovering it at a distance. Nature also must have endowed the brain of the animal with... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - Fossils - 1818 - 458 pages
...constructed as to fit them for devouring prey ; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh...of sense, for discovering it at a distance. Nature also must have endowed the brain of the animal with instincts sufficient for concealing itself, and... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1818 - 500 pages
...constructed as to fit them lor devouring1 prey ; the claws must be connti^ucted for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh ; the entire system of the limb* or organs of motion, for pursuing and overtaking it; and the organs of sense, for discovering... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - Science - 1822 - 508 pages
...be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh j the entire system of the limbs, or organs of motion,...of sense, for discovering it at a distance. Nature also must have endowed the brain of the animal with instincts sufficient for concealing itself, and... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...to fit them for devouring their prey ; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh...organs of sense for discovering it at a distance. Hence any one who observes merely the print of a cloven foot, may conclude that it has been left by... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare - Theology - 1831 - 188 pages
...claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing the flesh ; the entire system of the limbs, or organs...of sense, for discovering it at a distance. Nature also must have endowed the brain of the animal with instinct sufficient for concealing itself, and... | |
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