The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 pages |
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... mean any reproach to these authors ; their merits are beyond praise , and the world is deeply indebted both to their philosophy and their facts . But it was a philosophy founded chiefly on analogy which , as the author remarks in these ...
... mean any reproach to these authors ; their merits are beyond praise , and the world is deeply indebted both to their philosophy and their facts . But it was a philosophy founded chiefly on analogy which , as the author remarks in these ...
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... mean quantity , but a very intelligent gentleman assures me ( and he speaks from upwards of forty years ' experience ) that the mean rain of any C place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it OF SELBORNE 17.
... mean quantity , but a very intelligent gentleman assures me ( and he speaks from upwards of forty years ' experience ) that the mean rain of any C place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured it OF SELBORNE 17.
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... means of heat absorbed from the surrounding air . The facts stated by Dr. Hales , and quoted in all previous editions of this work , namely , " that a little snow having fallen on the night of the 29th of November , 1731 , it was mostly ...
... means of heat absorbed from the surrounding air . The facts stated by Dr. Hales , and quoted in all previous editions of this work , namely , " that a little snow having fallen on the night of the 29th of November , 1731 , it was mostly ...
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... mean the red deer , which toward the beginning of * Black game , long extinct in the district , have again made their appearance in small numbers . Some imported birds having been turned out about Chobham have strayed to this wild ...
... mean the red deer , which toward the beginning of * Black game , long extinct in the district , have again made their appearance in small numbers . Some imported birds having been turned out about Chobham have strayed to this wild ...
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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 Waltham blacks were broken men , sometimes political refugees , at others professional robbers ...
... 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 Waltham blacks were broken men , sometimes political refugees , at others professional robbers ...
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Natural History of Selborne: With Its Antiquities, Naturalist's Calendar, Etc. Gilbert White No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 80 - 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.
Page 408 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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.
Page 182 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Page 199 - 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. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Page 278 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia 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.
Page 158 - 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.
Page 184 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...