The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Suplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IVGeorge Bell, 1894 |
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... oviparous , as frogs , lizards , crocodiles , have their joints and motive flexures more analogously framed unto ours : and some among viviparous , that is , such thereof as can bring their fore - feet and meat therein unto their mouths ...
... oviparous , as frogs , lizards , crocodiles , have their joints and motive flexures more analogously framed unto ours : and some among viviparous , that is , such thereof as can bring their fore - feet and meat therein unto their mouths ...
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... oviparous quadrupeds and serpents have kidneys and ureters , and some fishes also bladders ; yet for the moist and dry excretion they seem at last to have but one vent and common place of exclusion ; and with the same propriety of ...
... oviparous quadrupeds and serpents have kidneys and ureters , and some fishes also bladders ; yet for the moist and dry excretion they seem at last to have but one vent and common place of exclusion ; and with the same propriety of ...
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... oviparous , as lizards , frogs , tortoises , chameleons , crocodiles , are without hair , and have no covering part or hairy investment at all . And if they conceive that , from the skin of the salamander , these in- cremable pieces are ...
... oviparous , as lizards , frogs , tortoises , chameleons , crocodiles , are without hair , and have no covering part or hairy investment at all . And if they conceive that , from the skin of the salamander , these in- cremable pieces are ...
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... oviparous animals , yet is the weazand secured some other way ; and therefore in whales that breathe , lest the water should get into the lungs , an ejection thereof is contrived by a fistula or spout at the head . And therefore also ...
... oviparous animals , yet is the weazand secured some other way ; and therefore in whales that breathe , lest the water should get into the lungs , an ejection thereof is contrived by a fistula or spout at the head . And therefore also ...
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