 | Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...the instinct to hide himself and spread snares for hu victim ; such are the general conditions of a carnivorous regimen ; every carnivorous animal must... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1828 - 614 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...organs of sense, to perceive it at a distance. It is neces. sary also that he should have seated in his brain, the instinct to hide himself and spread snares... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1829 - 602 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...carnivorous regimen ; every carnivorous animal must infallibly unite them, — without them the species could not subsist. But under these general conditions,... | |
 | Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1829 - 726 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...the instinct to hide himself and spread snares for bis victim; such are the general conditions of a carnivorous regimen; every carnivorous animal must... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that bis jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...sense to perceive it at a distance. It is necessary al«o, that he should have seated in hi* biain the instinct to hide himself and spread snares for his... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...motion to follow and overtake it, and of his organs of VoL. i. (18:35.) No. n. s .sense to perceive it at a distance. It is necessary also, that he should... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 490 pages
...and tear it, his teeth to divide the llesh, ш! the whole system of his organs of motion to folbar and overtake it, and of his organs of sense to perceive it ata distance. U is necessary, also, that lie should have seated in his brain the instinct to hide l.imself... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...whether %, to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the there is more than one species of the human 3 flesh, and the whole system of his organs of motion to follow and overtake it, and of his race ; but it is merely a dispute of words ; and if the term species is used in its com£ organs of... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1848 - 186 pages
...digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...organs of sense to perceive it at a distance." It was very soon apparent that the animals thus reconstructed from the fragments of their bones, belonged... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...digest fresh tlesli, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to devour the prey, his claws to seize and tear it, his teeth to divide the flesh,...the instinct to hide himself and spread snares for hia victim; such are the general conditions of a carnivorons regimen; they must infallibly be united... | |
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... action, by a reciprocal reaction ; none of these parts can change, without a change of the others also. Thus if the intestines of an animal are organized in a manner only to digest fresh flesh, it is necessary that his jaws should be constructed to... 
