The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's CalendarFraser, 1836 - 356 стор. |
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... under consideration ; and from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines . Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years , yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration ...
... under consideration ; and from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines . Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years , yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration ...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ... Gilbert White Повний перегляд - 1878 |
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abound Andalusia animals appear April autumn birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches circumstance cock cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR SIR discovered district eggs feed feet female fieldfare fish flies flocks forest frequently frogs garden ground hatched haunt hirundines hirundo house-martens hundred inches insects January late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March martens mentioned migration month motacilla naturalist nest never night November observed October oviparous owls pair PARROT CROSSBILL plants ponds prey procured quadrupeds rain remarkable remiges retire ringousels river Arun rooks says Scotland season seems seen SELBORNE September shew shot showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallow swift tail Temminck THOMAS PENNANT titmouse toads torpid trees vast village viviparous weather whinchats wings winter Wolmer woodcock woods young
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Сторінка 56 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers...
Сторінка 15 - On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 236 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 88 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Сторінка 235 - July 20 inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured, ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense, that butchers...
Сторінка 156 - For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Сторінка 53 - When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale; To hear the clamorous...
Сторінка 113 - These congregatings usually begin to take place about the first week in August ; and therefore we may conclude that by that time the first flight is pretty well over. The young of this species do not quit their abodes all together ; but the more forward birds get abroad some days before the rest. These, approaching the eaves of buildings, and playing about before them, make people think that several old ones attend one nest.
Сторінка 167 - ... would proceed but lamely without them ; by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants ; by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine manure for grain and grass.
Сторінка 175 - ... content with a list of names ; he should study plants philosophically, should investigate the laws of vegetation, should examine the powers and virtues of efficacious herbs, should promote their cultivation ; and graft the gardener, the planter, and the husbandman, on the phytologist. Not that system is by any means to be thrown aside ; without system the field of Nature would be a pathless wilderness : but system should be subservient to, not the main object of, pursuit.