 As on land there are some orders of animals that seem formed to command the rest, with greater powers and more various instincts, so in the ocean there are fishes which seem formed upon a nobler plan than others, and that, to their fishy form, join the...  A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 26by Oliver Goldsmith - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...taste, or that is capable of being extracted from them? CHAPTER II. OF CETACEOUS FISHES IN GENERAL. As on land there are some orders of animals that seem...Greenland fishing for whale, as it would be to say that a sportsman goes to Blackwall a-fbwling for mackerel. Yet, notwithstanding philosophers, mankind... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...taste, or that is capable of being extracted from them ?"w CHAP. II. OF CETACEOUS FISHES IN GENERAL. As on land there are some orders of animals that seem...Greenland fishing for whale, as it would be to say that a sportsman goes to Blackwall a-fowling for mackerel. Yet, notwithstanding philosophers, mankind... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pages
...fishy form, join the appetites and the conformation of quadrupeds. These all are of the cetaceotii kind; and so much raised above their fellows of the...Greenland fishing for whale, as it would be to say that a sportsman goes to Blackwall a-fowling for mackerel. Yet, notwithstanding philosophers, mankind... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...of digestion, he becomes corrupted and scorbutic by the excess of soda and magnesia. VOL. II. tites and instincts, that almost all our modern naturalists...Greenland fishing for whale, as it would be to say that a sportsman goes to Black wall a fowling for mackarel. Yet, notwithstanding philosophers, mankind... | |
 | 1906 - 854 pages
...latter and the viviparous hairy quadrupeds in the class of mammals, but Goldsmith urged that, "Although all our modern naturalists have fairly excluded them...have them called, not fishes, but great beasts of the wean," "yet. notwithstanding philosophers, mankind will always have their own way of talking; and for... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1915 - 940 pages
...which seem formed upon a nobler plan than others, and that, to their fishy form, join the appetites and conformation of quadrupeds. These are all of the cetaceous...men go to Greenland fishing for whale, as it would, to say that a sportsman goes to Blackwall a fowling for mackarel. Yet, notwithstanding philosophers,... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1915 - 986 pages
...our modern naturalists have fairly excluded them from the finny tribes, and will have them ealled, not fishes, but great beasts of the ocean ; with them,...men go to Greenland fishing for whale, as it would, to say that a sportsman goes to Blackwall a fowling for mackarel. Yet, notwithstanding philosophers,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1906 - 708 pages
...and the viviparous hairy <p.iadrupeds in the class of mammals, but Goldsmith urged that, "Although all our modern naturalists have fairly excluded them...tribes, and will have them called, not fishes, but great hcasts of the occitn," "yet, notwithstanding philosophers, mankind will always have their own way of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1906 - 702 pages
...nnd the viviparous hairy quadrui>eds in the class of mammals, but Goldsmith urged that, "Although nil our modern naturalists have fairly excluded them from...called, not fishes, but great beasts of the ocean." "yet, notwithstanding philosophers, mankind will always have their own way of talking; and for my part,"... | |
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