The Natural History of SelborneJohn Van Voorst, 1843 - 398 стор. |
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... young ; his remarking that the train of the peacock was not its tail , as is so often imagined ; his availing himself of gold and silver fishes kept in a glass bowl , to see the manner in which fishes die ; and we may add his two ...
... young ; his remarking that the train of the peacock was not its tail , as is so often imagined ; his availing himself of gold and silver fishes kept in a glass bowl , to see the manner in which fishes die ; and we may add his two ...
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... young persons . It was the author's object ( he himself tells us ) to " induce his readers to pay a more ready attention to the wonders of the creation , too frequently overlooked as common occurrences , " and he felt consolation in the ...
... young persons . It was the author's object ( he himself tells us ) to " induce his readers to pay a more ready attention to the wonders of the creation , too frequently overlooked as common occurrences , " and he felt consolation in the ...
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... , containing eggs , laid open . d , Minute young . Stilt - plover ( Himantopus melanopterus , Temm . ) Nuthatch ( Sitta Europea , Linn . ) • 326 330 349 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . PART I. LETTERS ADDRESSED xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... , containing eggs , laid open . d , Minute young . Stilt - plover ( Himantopus melanopterus , Temm . ) Nuthatch ( Sitta Europea , Linn . ) • 326 330 349 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . PART I. LETTERS ADDRESSED xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... young , and a place of much resort in summer evenings ; * As all trees , in our temperate climates , add a zone of wood annually to their trunk , it is easy to calculate their age , provided we can obtain a good section near the bottom ...
... young , and a place of much resort in summer evenings ; * As all trees , in our temperate climates , add a zone of wood annually to their trunk , it is easy to calculate their age , provided we can obtain a good section near the bottom ...
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... young person was allowed to be possessed of manhood or gallantry . The Waltham blacks at length committed such enor- mities , that Government was forced to interfere with that severe and sanguinary act called the Black Act , which now ...
... young person was allowed to be possessed of manhood or gallantry . The Waltham blacks at length committed such enor- mities , that Government was forced to interfere with that severe and sanguinary act called the Black Act , which now ...
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Сторінка 323 - 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.
Сторінка 381 - 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 - 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 191 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Сторінка 306 - Owls move in a buoyant manner, as if lighter than the air; they seem to want ballast. There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens that must draw the attention even of the most incurious — they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish...
Сторінка 85 - 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 2 - 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 27 - 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 261 - ... moist pastures, by the sides of streams, and under hedges. These rushes are in best condition in the height of summer, but may be gathered, so as to serve the purpose well, quite on to autumn.
Сторінка 226 - In Sweden she builds in barns, and is called ladu swala, the barn-swallow. Besides, in the warmer parts of Europe there are no chimneys to houses, except they are English-built: in these countries she constructs her nest in porches, and gateways, and galleries, and open halls. Here and there a bird may affect some odd, peculiar place ; as we have known a swallow build down the shaft of an old well, through which chalk had been formerly drawn up for the purpose of manure; but, in general, with us...