Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneMacmillan, 1877 - 591 стор. |
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... formed of a kind of terra lapidosa , or hardened clay , as soon as they were exposed to the rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were of very recent production . In the chalk - pit , at the north - west end of ...
... formed of a kind of terra lapidosa , or hardened clay , as soon as they were exposed to the rains and frost they mouldered away . These seemed as if they were of very recent production . In the chalk - pit , at the north - west end of ...
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... formation of the head may be of singular service to beasts of chase , by affording them free respiration : and no doubt these additional nostrils are thrown open when they are hard run . Mr. Ray observed that at Malta the owners slit up ...
... formation of the head may be of singular service to beasts of chase , by affording them free respiration : and no doubt these additional nostrils are thrown open when they are hard run . Mr. Ray observed that at Malta the owners slit up ...
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... formed by organic impulse , by the powers of the parts of its windpipe formed for sound , just as cats pur . You will credit me , I hope , when I assure you that as my neighbours were assembled in a hermitage on the side of a steep hill ...
... formed by organic impulse , by the powers of the parts of its windpipe formed for sound , just as cats pur . You will credit me , I hope , when I assure you that as my neighbours were assembled in a hermitage on the side of a steep hill ...
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... formation seems to be poorly qualified for migration ; for its wings are short , and placed so forward and out of the centre of gravity , that it flies in a very heavy and embarrassed manner , with its legs hanging down ; and can hardly ...
... formation seems to be poorly qualified for migration ; for its wings are short , and placed so forward and out of the centre of gravity , that it flies in a very heavy and embarrassed manner , with its legs hanging down ; and can hardly ...
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... the white hare . As a neighbour was lately ploughing in a dry chalky field , far removed from any water , he turned out a water - rat , that was curiously laid up in an hybernaculum artificially formed of grass XXVIII . ] 91 OF SELBORNE .
... the white hare . As a neighbour was lately ploughing in a dry chalky field , far removed from any water , he turned out a water - rat , that was curiously laid up in an hybernaculum artificially formed of grass XXVIII . ] 91 OF SELBORNE .
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The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton Gilbert White Повний перегляд - 1905 |
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Сторінка 462 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Сторінка 272 - 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 54 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 123 - A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But a hot sunny season coming on before the brood was half fledged, the reflection of the wall became insupportable, and must inevitably have destroyed the tender young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping...
Сторінка 120 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against...
Сторінка 131 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight.
Сторінка 5 - ... sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.
Сторінка 250 - ... methods which instinct effects by one alone. Now this maxim must be taken in a qualified sense; for there are instances in which instinct does vary and conform to the circumstances of place and convenience.
Сторінка 184 - Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to subsist in the manor, or hundred. As to that on the Plestor " The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it...
Сторінка 131 - But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day.