The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... means , to give the extraordinary prices for them that seem so incomprehensible to outsiders . It is curious that White should have had an artist's eye for landscape . He frequently , as he rides along the South Downs , checks his horse ...
... means , to give the extraordinary prices for them that seem so incomprehensible to outsiders . It is curious that White should have had an artist's eye for landscape . He frequently , as he rides along the South Downs , checks his horse ...
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... falls on it is very considerable , as may be supposed in so woody and mountainous a district . As my experience of measuring the water is but of short date , I am not qualified to give the mean NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 133.
... falls on it is very considerable , as may be supposed in so woody and mountainous a district . As my experience of measuring the water is but of short date , I am not qualified to give the mean NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 133.
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... mean rain of any place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at ...
... mean rain of any place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years , from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at ...
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... mean the red - deer , which toward the beginning of this century amounted to about five hundred head , and made a stately appearance . There is an old keeper , now alive , named Adams , whose great- grandfather ( mentioned in a ...
... mean the red - deer , which toward the beginning of this century amounted to about five hundred head , and made a stately appearance . There is an old keeper , now alive , named Adams , whose great- grandfather ( mentioned in a ...
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... means of the Waltham blacks , or , to use his own expression , as soon as they began blacking , they were reduced to about fifty head , and so continued decreasing till the time of the late Duke of Cumberland . It is now more than ...
... means of the Waltham blacks , or , to use his own expression , as soon as they began blacking , they were reduced to about fifty head , and so continued decreasing till the time of the late Duke of Cumberland . It is now more than ...
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The Natural History of Selborne: And the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White Перегляд фрагмента - 1879 |
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