"BD" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... palaeontological article appears to have been one entitled Beitraege zur Naturgeschichte der Vorwelt (Lichtenberg, Voigt's Magaz., Bd. vi., S. 4, 1790, pp. 1-17). I have been unable to ascertain in which of his publications he describes and names ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... Keeper With a Supplement to the Reformed School (1650) is reproduced from the copy in the Folger Shakespeare Library (Shelf Mark D2882/Bd w/D2883). A typical type page (p. 7) measures 107 x 56 mm. Not reproduced here are two additional parts in the original volume: An Idea of Mathematicks by John Pell and The description of one of the chiefest Libraries which is in Germanie, attributed either ...
— The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) • John Dury
... termed the bounty-giving nation par excellence.[BD] She first adopted a policy of State protection of native shipping in the middle of the sixteenth century with the enactment (1560) of an exclusive Navigation Act, forbidding her subjects to freight foreign vessels in any port of the realm, ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon
... Marino Faliero, seems to have possessed many souvenirs of Marco Polo, and among them two manuscripts, one in the handwriting of his celebrated fellow-citizen(?), and one adorned with miniatures. M. Julius von Schlosser has reprinted (Die aeltesten Medaillen und die Antike, Bd. XVIII., Jahrb. d. Kunsthist. Samml. d. Allerhoechsten Kaiserhauses, Vienna, 1897, pp. 42-43) from the Bulletino di arti, industrie e curiosita veneziane, III., 1880-81, p. 101,[38] the inventory of the ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... effectiue, holy in himselfe, and making other holy; the Lord is glorious in holinesse Exod. 15. 11. Wheras other Gods are famous for their vnholinesse, Venus was a wanton, Mercurius a theefe, Iupiter a monsterous adulterer, an ingenious man (as[bd] Basile writes) would blush to report that of beastes, which the Gentiles haue recorded of their Gods. If such imputations are true saith [be]Augustine, quam mali how wicked are these Gods: if false quam male how wretched and foolish are these men, adoring ...
— An Exposition of the Last Psalme • John Boys
... this Edition two papers by eminent botanists have appeared; Schwendener, 'Das Winden der Pflanzen' (Monatsberichte der Berliner Akademie, Dec. 1881), and J. Sachs, 'Notiz uber Schlingpflanzen' (Arbeiten des botanischen Instituts in Wurzburg, Bd. ii. p. 719, 1882). The view "that the capacity of revolving, on which most climbers depend, is inherent, though undeveloped, in almost every plant in the vegetable kingdom" ('Climbing Plants,' p. 205), has been confirmed by the observations on circumnutation since ...
— The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants • Charles Darwin
... says in Archiv fuer Geschichte der Philosophie, Bd. v. Heft 3, p. 358: "The Justification of which the medieval man had inward experience was the descending stream of objective forces upon the believer from the transcendental world, through the Incarnation, in the channels ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones
... company of one of my two hexagonal Grandsons, contemplating one of his sides (AB) full front, it will be evident from the accompanying diagram that I shall see one whole line (AB) in comparative brightness (shading off hardly at all at the ends) and two smaller lines (CA and BD) dim throughout and shading away into greater dimness towards the extremities C ...
— Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) • Edwin A. Abbott
... zacuan is known to ornithologists as the Oriolus dominicensis. These birds are remarkably gregarious, sometimes as many as a hundred nests being found in one tree (see Eduard Muehlenpfort, Versuch einer getreuen Schilderung der Republik Mexiko, Bd. I, p. 183). ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton
... Native Tribes, Animals, and Scenery of Southern Africa, from Drawings made by S. DANIELL. Royal 4to. half bd. morocco, uncut, consisting of 48 fine engravings of animals, scenery, portraits of the various tribes, &c. Proofs on India ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.01.19 • Various
... given, having the Focus of the Object-glass given equal to B, and the distance to B D; the distance between the first and the second Glass will be equal to {2B squared 2BD}/{2B D}, whence subducting B (the Focus of the Object-glass given) there remains BD/{2B D}; and if this sum be supposed equal to C, we shall easily know, by the preceding Rule, the ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... capital restaurants in Paris which may be called "bourgeois" without in any way detracting from their excellence. An excellent type of such a restaurant is Maire's, at the corner of the Bd. St-Dennis, owned by the company which controls the Paillard's Restaurant of the Champs Elysees. It is a good place to dine at for any one going to the play at the Porte St-Martin, the Renaissance, the Theatre Antoine, or any of the music halls or theatres in the west of Paris. ...
— The Gourmet's Guide to Europe • Algernon Bastard
... an ideal restoration of part of one of the old villages (see Plate 1 above),* such as he conceives may have existed on the lakes of Zurich and Bienne. (* Keller "Pfahlbauten, Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zurich" Bd. 12 and 13 1858-1861. In the fifth number of the "Natural History Review" January 9, 1862, Mr. Lubbock has published an excellent account of the works of the Swiss writers on their lake-habitations.) In this view, however, he has not simply trusted to his imagination, but ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell
... zealous study for years before I could love himself. I was not yet capable of comprehending Nature at first-hand: I had but learned to admire her image, reflected in the understanding, and put in order by rules.' Werke, Bd. viii 2, ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle
... Theogonie Mexicaine, p. 23 (Paris, 1840). Both opinions are equally incomplete. Dr. Schultz-Sellack considers him the "Wassergott," and assigns him to the North, in his essay, Die Amerikanischen Goetter der Vier Weltgegenden, Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, Bd. xi, 1879. This approaches more ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
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— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... the West of Europe the fatal inquisitiveness is more frequently ascribed to a woman. For parallels see the German stories of "Marienkind," and "Fitchers Vogel." (Grimm, KM., Nos. 3 and 46, also the notes in Bd. iii. pp. 8, 76, 324.) Less familiar than these is, probably, the story of "Die eisernen Stiefel" (Wolf's "Deutsche Hausmaerchen," 1851, No. 19), in which the hero opens a forbidden door—that of a summer-house—and sees "deep down below ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... a hundred pages or so of Fanny Lewald's first Bd., and am delighted with her insight ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley |
