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In this instance the book is the man, if we may so far change Monsieur de Buffon's saying. It is full of fresh observations and lively descriptions, perhaps a little too overlarded and oversprigged with prose and verse quotations, but as lively as a golden carp just landed.
Reasonably enough, it's assumed that today's whales are smaller because they haven't had time to reach their full growth. That's why the Count de Buffon's encyclopedia says that cetaceans can live, and even must live, for a thousand years. You understand?" Ned Land didn't understand. He no longer even heard me. That baleen whale kept coming closer. His eyes devoured it. "Oh!" he exclaimed.
It takes time and infinite pains. In no other realm does genius come nearer to Buffon's famous description, "the capacity for taking pains," but it is well worth the while.
Famous phrases have been made about it, to be sure; but most of these, like that corrupted from Buffon's cursory remark in his discourse of reception into the Academy "Le style est de l'homme même," are lofty admissions of the impossibility of definition. By this fact we are fortified in our opinion that style is a matter of feeling rather than of intellect.
Buffon's great views on the revolutions of the earth had made a deep impression upon him, although he was to end as the declared adversary of that vulcanism which we can trace already at the bottom of Buffon's theory naturally enough, when we think how uncongenial all violence in society and nature was to him, how he looked everywhere for slow, uninterrupted evolution.
In like manner, Lacepede was directed to the study of natural history by the perusal of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle, which he found in his father's library, and read over and over again until he almost knew it by heart.
In Buffon's experiments he once found a Frenchman who could exert a force of 534 pounds with his jaws. In several American circuses there have been seen women who hold themselves by a strap between their teeth while they are being hauled up to a trapeze some distance from the ground.
I am travelling for my improvement, and information of all kinds is highly acceptable. "'You are acquainted with the history of the horse, I suppose? "'The natural history? Buffon's? Certainly. The horse is, after the lion, the noblest of all the beasts. "'No, no; the philosophical history. The different stages and vicissitudes in the existence of those noble quadrupeds.
The impropriety of such a course, unless the work was, like Buffon's, transparently ironical, could only be matched by its fatuousness, or indeed by the folly of one who should assign action so motiveless to any one out of a lunatic asylum. This sounds well, but unfortunately we cannot forget that when Mr.
The celebrated Buffoon was not a humorist, but the famous naturalist Buffon. Every literate child at that time knew Buffon's Natural History as well as Esop's Fables. And no living child had heard the name that has since obliterated Buffon's in the popular consciousness: the name of Darwin. Ten years elapsed.
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