 | 1829 - 436 páginas
...it can walk. The sloth is a large animal, and yet can travel only fifty paces in a day ; an elk will run a .mile and a half in seven minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that. An eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and a... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 páginas
...indeed, we know no other animal whose strength can be put in competition with (its name must come out half in seven minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute : the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that " : an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and... | |
 | 1842 - 284 páginas
...only five inches in fifty seconds ; but a lady-bird can fly twenty millions its own length in less than an hour ; an elk can run a mile and a half in...minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and... | |
 | Ralph Willard Allen - 1842 - 216 páginas
...five inches in fifty seconds ; but a lady-bird can fly twenty million times its own length in less than an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in...minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...it can walk. The sloth is a large animal, and yet cannot travel fifty paces in a day ; an elk will run a mile and a half in seven minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that. An eagle can fly 10 leagues in an hour, and a canary... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...only five inches in fifty seconds ; but a lady-bird can '.'i> million times its own length in less than an hour; an elk can run a mile and a half in...minutes; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartar has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can if eighteen leagues in an hour ; and a... | |
 | 1846 - 586 páginas
...elk can run a mile and a half in seven minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle...leagues in an hour ; and a canary falcon can even reach 200 leagues in the short space of sixteen hours. — Bucte. FREE THINKING. Free thinking does not always... | |
 | 1847 - 480 páginas
...five inches in fifty seconds ; but a lady-bird can fly twenty million times its own length in leas than an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in...minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 páginas
...five inches in fifty seconds ; but a lady-bird can fly twenty millions of times its own length in less than an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in...minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and... | |
 | 860 páginas
...five inches in fifty seconds ; but a lady-bird can fly twenty millions of times its own length in less than an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in...; an antelope, a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly eighteen leagues in an hour ; and... | |
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... its own length in less than an hour. An elk can run a mile and a half in seven minutes ; an antelope a mile in a minute ; the wild mule of Tartary has a speed even greater than that ; an eagle can fly... 
