Natural History of Selborne: With Its Antiquities, Naturalist's Calendar, Etc. ...Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1858 - 437 стор. |
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... never boasted in his life after the manner of the Roman Lyrist- " Exegi monumentum ære perennus , " and probably never had one wish or expectation about the matter , no man ever left a more lasting memorial ; the popularity of his book ...
... never boasted in his life after the manner of the Roman Lyrist- " Exegi monumentum ære perennus , " and probably never had one wish or expectation about the matter , no man ever left a more lasting memorial ; the popularity of his book ...
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... never could come to a decision on the first glass , yet never failed to decide that the second one was excellent : nor do the reports say that either the one or the other moved for a new trial after the second glass had been decided on ...
... never could come to a decision on the first glass , yet never failed to decide that the second one was excellent : nor do the reports say that either the one or the other moved for a new trial after the second glass had been decided on ...
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... never could ineet with an entire specimen ; nor could I ever find in books any engraving from a perfect one . In the superb museum at Leicester - house , permission was given me to examine for this article ; and though I was ...
... never could ineet with an entire specimen ; nor could I ever find in books any engraving from a perfect one . In the superb museum at Leicester - house , permission was given me to examine for this article ; and though I was ...
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... never becoming slippery in frost nor rain , is excellent for dry walls , and is sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste it lies scattered on the surface of the ground , but is dug on Weaver's - down , a vast hill on ...
... never becoming slippery in frost nor rain , is excellent for dry walls , and is sometimes used in buildings . In many parts of that waste it lies scattered on the surface of the ground , but is dug on Weaver's - down , a vast hill on ...
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... never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment . It contains , besides the peram- bulation , a rough estimate of the value of the timbers , which were considerable , growing at that time in the district of the Holt ; and enumerates ...
... never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment . It contains , besides the peram- bulation , a rough estimate of the value of the timbers , which were considerable , growing at that time in the district of the Holt ; and enumerates ...
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The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities; Naturalist's Calendar ... Gilbert White Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2012 |
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Сторінка 258 - 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 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Сторінка 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Сторінка 187 - For it is supposed that a shrewmouse 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 179 - As the morning advanced the sun became bright and warm, and the day turned out one of those most lovely ones which no season but the autumn produces ; cloudless, calm, serene, and worthy of the South of France itself.
Сторінка 180 - Every day in fine weather, in autumn chiefly, do I see those spiders shooting out their webs and mounting aloft: they will go off from your finger if you will take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to the top of the page, and shooting out a web, took its departure from thence. But what I most wondered at was, that it went off with considerable velocity in a place where no air was stirring ; and I am sure that I did not assist it...
Сторінка 1 - The covert of this eminence is altogether beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs.
Сторінка 20 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd 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 375 - 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 222 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.