The natural history of Selborne, and The naturalist's calendarWarne, 1879 |
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... Linnæus ( see Syst . Nat . ) which he says " natat in fossis et urinatur . " I THE BLACKCAP . should be glad to procure one " plantis palmatis . " Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius , and to doubt whether it differs ...
... Linnæus ( see Syst . Nat . ) which he says " natat in fossis et urinatur . " I THE BLACKCAP . should be glad to procure one " plantis palmatis . " Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius , and to doubt whether it differs ...
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... least fifty to one . This extraordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through Holland into Italy . " Now I want to know , NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 45.
... least fifty to one . This extraordinary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that " before winter all their hen chaffinches migrate through Holland into Italy . " Now I want to know , NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 45.
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... Linnæus perhaps would call the species Mus minimus . NOTE TO LETTER XV . ' The cane is simply a local name for the weasel . It is called mouse - hunter in Norfolk . A peculiarity of the weasel is its curiosity . If you startle it and it ...
... Linnæus perhaps would call the species Mus minimus . NOTE TO LETTER XV . ' The cane is simply a local name for the weasel . It is called mouse - hunter in Norfolk . A peculiarity of the weasel is its curiosity . If you startle it and it ...
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... Linnæus , in his " Systema Naturæ , " hints at what Mr. Ellis advances more than once . Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms , and that is the viper . As ...
... Linnæus , in his " Systema Naturæ , " hints at what Mr. Ellis advances more than once . Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms , and that is the viper . As ...
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... Linnæus might with great propriety have put it into his genus of motacilla ; and mota- cilla salicaria of his fauna suecica seems to come the nearest to it . It is no uncommon bird , haunting the sides of ponds and rivers where there is ...
... Linnæus might with great propriety have put it into his genus of motacilla ; and mota- cilla salicaria of his fauna suecica seems to come the nearest to it . It is no uncommon bird , haunting the sides of ponds and rivers where there is ...
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Page 300 - 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.
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Page 134 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 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. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers; Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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Page 75 - Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : 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!
Page 200 - ... was plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all, the party was cured; but where the cleft continued to gape, the operation, it was supposed, would prove ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did not grow together.
Page 201 - ... 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, aud threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 279 - 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.
Page 278 - July 2oth inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers...
Page 150 - 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 to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country.