RMP03BJ8–. English: Fleuron from book: A bone to pick, recommended to the several water companies of this metropolis; or a check to avarice, tyranny and opression; in two parts. Part the first being an authentic, or genuine account, what steps the author hath taken to withstand the rapacity of a certain water company, as addressed to some particular Gentlemen under their judicial Capacity, touching their Conduct and Proceedings in this Business. Part the second contains two letters to the above company, respecting the rapid and unreasonable Advance of their Water-Rents; also relating to their arbitrary
RM2AJMK4N–Our homes, and how to beautify them . ofjieace no less intense than his rapacity for the spoils of war—and was royallyliberal to the able designers and skilled craftsmen who ministered to hislove of sumptuous effect. To his inspiration the Palace of Aersailles owed itsexistence. To his favour that great liihuste Boulle was largely indebted for hisopportunities of distinction. Le Brun was retained in a high position todirect the Kings artistic schemes. ^Vatteaus dainty fancy was utilised inpictorial decoration. The (lobelins tapestry looms were acquired for theGovernment by order of the King. I
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RMPFYGAG–. Rural bird life of England : being essays on ornithology, with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . Birds; Birds. THE SPARROWHAWK. This small yet bold and handsome Hawk is seldom found in any save well-wooded districts—districts which abound with the small birds that constitute his food, rich, broad, well cultivated lands, occasionally studded with woods. He will also frequent the fir woods on the borders of the moors, and many a tiny Gold Crest and Willow Warbler fall victims to his rapacity. He also daily sallies forth and hunts the lanes, hedgerows, and coppices,
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RMRE2J0C–. A practical course in botany, with especial reference to its bearings on agriculture, economics, and sanitation. Botany. 332 PRACTICAL COURSE IN BOTANY 382. Slavery, or partnership? — Now, what can be the object of this peculiar association? Is it a symbiosis, or a case of enslavement? The fungi, as we know, are all parasites, unable to manufacture their own food or to exist at all except at the expense of other organisms, living or dead. But the lichens have refined upon the gross rapacity of their order, and instead of indiscriminately destroying the hosts that furnish their nourishment, h
RMRDTE46–. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. Fig. hi Cants lupus. Wolf. ,V- hunger,* they seldom attack prey larger than themselves, and they are so wary of traps that a traveler, when pursued, has frightened them away by merely trailing a cord. Their bite, unlike that of any other animal, is a succes- sion of quick, violent snaps. The Dog.—Of all the conquests achieved by man over animals, that of the dog is the most complete, and. perhaps, the most useful. Not only is he the Mastiff ^'^^^ mammal that has fol-. * Such is then their rapacity that they will make a meal of a harness or even of old shoe
RMRJ1FW4–. The hunter and the trapper in North America, or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. Hunting; Game and game-birds; Chasse; Gibier. CHAPTER I. THE EAGLE.. LL honour to the lords of earth ! If I commence this record of my adventui'es as a spoi-tsman with the history of the eagle, it is not that I entertain the slightest respect for this bird of prey,—the type of brutal force, of rapacity, of carnage, of selfishness. But simply because the eagle, once the symbol of the imperial power of Rome, has become, since the great war of American independence, the heraldic embleri of the vast republi
RMRDAC92–. Rural bird life of England : being essays on ornithology, with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . Birds; Birds. THE SPARROWHAWK. This small yet bold and handsome Hawk is seldom found in any save well-wooded districts—districts which abound with the small birds that constitute his food, rich, broad, well cultivated lands, occasionally studded with woods. He will also frequent the fir woods on the borders of the moors, and many a tiny Gold Crest and Willow Warbler fall victims to his rapacity. He also daily sallies forth and hunts the lanes, hedgerows, and coppices,
RMRETM8C–. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 'If' 1 i . i hiii I â ? ; mw^. 588 PHILIPPA OF HAINAFLT. which was really taken when that deforming disease, the dropsy, had destroyed every remnant of Philippa's former beauty. The only shade of impopularity ever cast on the conduct of Philipj)!! was owing to the rapacity of her purveyors, aft
RMRJ0KTX–. The animals of North America [microform]. Zoology; Mammals; Zoologie; Mammifères. 92 Ar^IMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. "J.. able numbers wherever the destruction of the forests, and the -wanton rapacity of man, liave {i^^^Btt^^ ^'^^ caused its extinction. In the Mf^^^PSBk./f. .* State of Maine and in Canada it abounds in the great evergreen for- ests, its worst enemy tliore being the wolf, as there isperhajjs less of the sporting ar lor to be found hi that sec- tion. The loggers and lumbermen there, may occasionally filch time to hunt, by torchlight, a deer or two, or get u]) a hunt for a bet—
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