In 1806 Fischer de Waldheim, in his Tableaux syn- optiques de zoognosie (p. 181), quoting Nieremberg, extended his figure of speech, and, while justly deprecating the notion that the series of forms belonging to any particular group of creatures - the Mammalia was that whence he took his instance - could be placed in a straight line, imagined the various genera to be arrayed in a series of contiguous circles around Man as a centre. [Please select]
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All at once the tableaux became animated. [Please select]
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There is nothing vulgar or common about any of the proceedings, or about the countless tableaux which pass along the private streets. [Please select]