The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... αιγας κατα τα ωτα . ” " Alcmeon does not advance what is true , when he avers that goats breathe through their ears . " - History of Animals . Book I. , chap . xi . LETTER XV . SELBORNE , March 30th , 1768 . NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... αιγας κατα τα ωτα . ” " Alcmeon does not advance what is true , when he avers that goats breathe through their ears . " - History of Animals . Book I. , chap . xi . LETTER XV . SELBORNE , March 30th , 1768 . NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... advance this extraordinary provision of nature as a new instance of the wisdom of God in the creation . As yet I have not quite done with my history of the oedicnemus , or stone - curlew ; for I shall 56 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... advance this extraordinary provision of nature as a new instance of the wisdom of God in the creation . As yet I have not quite done with my history of the oedicnemus , or stone - curlew ; for I shall 56 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... advance what they will on such subjects , yet there is such a propensity in mankind towards deceiving and being deceived , that one cannot safely relate anything from common report , especially in print , without expressing some degree ...
... advance what they will on such subjects , yet there is such a propensity in mankind towards deceiving and being deceived , that one cannot safely relate anything from common report , especially in print , without expressing some degree ...
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... advance plausible arguments to support whatever theory they shall choose to maintain ; but then the misfortune is , every one's hypothesis is each as good as another's , since they are all founded on conjecture . The late writers of ...
... advance plausible arguments to support whatever theory they shall choose to maintain ; but then the misfortune is , every one's hypothesis is each as good as another's , since they are all founded on conjecture . The late writers of ...
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... advance that it is " statura hirun- dinis urbica , " and that " definitio hirundinis ripariæ Linnæi huic quoque convenit , " he in some measure invalidates all he has said ; at least he shows at once that he compares them to these ...
... advance that it is " statura hirun- dinis urbica , " and that " definitio hirundinis ripariæ Linnæi huic quoque convenit , " he in some measure invalidates all he has said ; at least he shows at once that he compares them to these ...
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