The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... eye open . To many it would do much good to read this work if only with the object of getting rid of some of the spiders ' webs that have been so industriously spun over the eyesight of those who would like to think for themselves ...
... eye open . To many it would do much good to read this work if only with the object of getting rid of some of the spiders ' webs that have been so industriously spun over the eyesight of those who would like to think for themselves ...
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... eye for landscape . He frequently , as he rides along the South Downs , checks his horse to admire those very scenes which Turner has made classic . He thinks them glorious , as indeed they are ; yet one would scarcely expect , in the ...
... eye for landscape . He frequently , as he rides along the South Downs , checks his horse to admire those very scenes which Turner has made classic . He thinks them glorious , as indeed they are ; yet one would scarcely expect , in the ...
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... eyes . There are people who have never seen a humble bee drill a hole in the nectary of a snap - dragon , and yet have whole gardens full of flowers . At least , do not go out of your own locality much for some time . The mass of this ...
... eyes . There are people who have never seen a humble bee drill a hole in the nectary of a snap - dragon , and yet have whole gardens full of flowers . At least , do not go out of your own locality much for some time . The mass of this ...
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... eyes . It must ever be regretted that he did not leave a natural history of the people of his day . We should then have had a picture of England just before the beginning of our present era , and a wonderful difference it would have ...
... eyes . It must ever be regretted that he did not leave a natural history of the people of his day . We should then have had a picture of England just before the beginning of our present era , and a wonderful difference it would have ...
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... fields , near the side of the down , and given to me for the singularity of its appearance , which , to an incurious eye , seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long , the cardo 8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... fields , near the side of the down , and given to me for the singularity of its appearance , which , to an incurious eye , seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long , the cardo 8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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