| Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1833 - 656 pages
...figuratively called the head and the heart. shallow margin of the water, or from wet sand. He observes : " If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this." We cannot take cognisance of the actions of creatures enclosed in bivalve shells; but a distinguished... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had designed to make signs of their happiness, they could not have done it Jnore intelligibly. Suppose, then, what there is no reason to doubt, each individual of this number... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 372 pages
...beings could express delight it was exhibited by the polypi on which I was gazing : if they had intended to make signs of their happiness they could not have done it more effectually, for they were sporting about in every direction, sometimes expanding like a flower, then... | |
| William Youatt - Animal rights - 1839 - 238 pages
...shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight,...happiness, they could not have done it more intelligibly. Then what a sum, collectively, of gratification and pleasure have we here before our view !*" All this... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight it was this: if they hud meant to make signs of their happiness they could not have done it more intelligibly. Suppose then,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Christian life - 1845 - 338 pages
...shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air, from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight,...each individual of this number to be in a state of actual enjoyment, what a sum collectively, of gratification and pleasure have we here before our view.... | |
| Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air, from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight,...have done it more intelligibly. Suppose then, what there is no reason to doubt, each individual of this number to be m a state of positive enjoyment;... | |
| Bible - 1850 - 274 pages
...shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight,...this number to be in a state of positive enjoyment, and what a sum, collectively, of gratification and pleasure have we here before our view !' to him.... | |
| Charles Hargreaves - 1850 - 242 pages
...shrimps in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margins of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight,...make signs of their happiness, they could not have shown it more intelligibly. Suppose, then, what I have no doubt of, each individual of this number... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...shrimps in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of thcir happiness, they could not have done it more intelligibly. Suppose, then, what I have no • li... | |
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