 | 1853 - 758 pages
...French Academy defined a crab, " a little red fish, that walks backwards ;" Cuvier entering, said, " It is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backwards. With this exception the definition is excellent." So say we, to Sir Henry Wotton. Diplomacy... | |
 | Alfred Henry Forrester - 1854 - 234 pages
...Cuvier, " only, if you will give me leave, I will make one small observation on its natural history. The Crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not go backwards ; with these exceptions, your definition is excellent." TEMPTATION. An aged Quakeress,... | |
 | 1873 - 536 pages
...correctness of the definitiou; "perfect — only I will make one small observation in natural history. The crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward. With these exceptions, your definition is admirable." A Painful Examination. — In the course of an... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 584 pages
...backward.'" "Perfect, gentlemen," said Cuvier, " only I will make one small observation in natural history : the crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward. With these exceptions, your definition is excellent." iCe Cyclopaedia of Biography ', embracing a Serte*... | |
 | 1863 - 606 pages
...fish," said he, "that walks backwards." " Quite correct," observed a friend, "excepting three errors: a crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backwards." dur popular periodical is exact, with the exception of Umidering in almost every statement.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...correctness of the definition ; " perfect — only I will make one small observation in natural history. The crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward. With these exceptions, your definition is admirable." Too many easily-made definitions are liable to... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...correctness of the definition; "perfect — only I will make one small observation in natural history. The crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward. With these exceptions, your definition is admirable." Too many easily-made definitions are liable to... | |
 | 1872 - 798 pages
...This is utilitarian science with a vengeance, but is eclipsed shortly when the brilliant popularizer of scientific knowledge asserts that a man of average...elements most characteristic of clay, namely, silicon and aluminum, are wholly wanting in the human system ; or, if present, they are in such small quantities... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 pages
...Cnvier ; '• only, if you will give me leave, I wil make one small observation in natural history the crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward. With these exceptions, your definition is excellent." A WORDY orator once got up and said : " Sir,... | |
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I will make one small observation in natural history. The crab is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward. With these exceptions your definition is excellent. 
