The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, Том 1J. Van Voorst, 1877 |
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... formed the favourite pursuit of Gilbert White . Perhaps the most interesting addition which the Editor is enabled to offer with especial reference to Gil- bert White personally , consists of a large number of original letters , which ...
... formed the favourite pursuit of Gilbert White . Perhaps the most interesting addition which the Editor is enabled to offer with especial reference to Gil- bert White personally , consists of a large number of original letters , which ...
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... formed a considerable element in the happiness of his life . In the whole tenour of his well - known work , in the few existing records of his own life , and no less in his private letters , will be found the same unambitious and gentle ...
... formed a considerable element in the happiness of his life . In the whole tenour of his well - known work , in the few existing records of his own life , and no less in his private letters , will be found the same unambitious and gentle ...
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... formed so marked a characteristic of his whole future life . The persistent celibacy of Gilbert White appears scarcely consistent with his eminently affectionate and social disposition , and leads naturally to the supposition that there ...
... formed so marked a characteristic of his whole future life . The persistent celibacy of Gilbert White appears scarcely consistent with his eminently affectionate and social disposition , and leads naturally to the supposition that there ...
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... formed this acquaintance is in his letter to Pennant of January 22nd , 1768 , in which he says , " I have received from your friend Mr. Barrington one of his naturalist's jour- nals , which I shall endeavour to fill up in the course of ...
... formed this acquaintance is in his letter to Pennant of January 22nd , 1768 , in which he says , " I have received from your friend Mr. Barrington one of his naturalist's jour- nals , which I shall endeavour to fill up in the course of ...
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... formed the vignette in the titlepage of his book . In a letter to his brother Thomas , in the month of June 1777 , he discusses the subject of the manners , customs , and morals of the occupants of the Temple and Priory , enclosing a ...
... formed the vignette in the titlepage of his book . In a letter to his brother Thomas , in the month of June 1777 , he discusses the subject of the manners , customs , and morals of the occupants of the Temple and Priory , enclosing a ...
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Сторінка 330 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Сторінка 181 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse 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 132 - Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study, but the investigation of the life and conversation of animals, is a concern of much more trouble and difficulty, and is not be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country.
Сторінка 181 - In a farm-yard, near the middle of this village, stands, at this day, a row of pollard-ashes, which, by the seams and long cicatrices down their sides, manifestly show that, in former times, they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children, stript naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity.
Сторінка 262 - 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 151 - ... funnel, as I have often observed with some degree of wonder. Five or six, or more feet down the chimney, does this little bird begin to form her nest about the middle of May, which consists, like that of the housemartin, of a crust or shell composed of dirt or mud, mixed with short pieces of straw, to render it tough and permanent ; with this difference, that whereas the.
Сторінка 56 - 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 4 - ... the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit.
Сторінка 182 - 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 exist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it...
Сторінка 128 - Part loosely wing the region; part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...