Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneMacmillan and Company, 1875 - 591 стор. |
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... matters too copious for an Epistle . I had like to have forgotten to add that Jack copied your verses , and sent them to yr Uncle John who commended them much you will be pleased to be commended by one that is the best performer and the ...
... matters too copious for an Epistle . I had like to have forgotten to add that Jack copied your verses , and sent them to yr Uncle John who commended them much you will be pleased to be commended by one that is the best performer and the ...
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... matter ; will not cut without difficulty , nor easily strike fire with steel . Being often found in broad flat pieces , it makes good pavement for paths about houses , never becoming slippery in frost or rain ; is excellent for dry ...
... matter ; will not cut without difficulty , nor easily strike fire with steel . Being often found in broad flat pieces , it makes good pavement for paths about houses , never becoming slippery in frost or rain ; is excellent for dry ...
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... matter of talk and wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeo- men - prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess . it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld . The exertions made by the horse ...
... matter of talk and wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeo- men - prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess . it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld . The exertions made by the horse ...
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... periods as bats do , is a matter rather suspected than proved ; or do they not rather spend their time in deep and sheltered vales near waters where insects are to be found ? Certain it 30 [ LETT . THE NATURAL HISTORY.
... periods as bats do , is a matter rather suspected than proved ; or do they not rather spend their time in deep and sheltered vales near waters where insects are to be found ? Certain it 30 [ LETT . THE NATURAL HISTORY.
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... matter , declared that they also thought them mostly all females ; at least fifty to one . This extra- ordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through ...
... matter , declared that they also thought them mostly all females ; at least fifty to one . This extra- ordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through ...
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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 68 - 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 523 - 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 23 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose; Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 78 - Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Сторінка 290 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 96 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Сторінка 251 - Yet there is a season of the year (usually the beginning- of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning ; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant field. The motives that impel him to undertake these rambles seem to be of the amorous kind : his fancy then becomes intent on sexual...
Сторінка 137 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices : for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only "the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Сторінка 147 - 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 121 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...