 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...Fauna. 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...by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific differences ; which are almost universally... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...Fauna. 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...by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific differences; which are almost universally... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...that " Faunists are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms;" and he adds, " the reason is plain ; because all that may be done...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." Thus it was his complaint against Scopoli, that he was " not so full with regard to the manners of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...of the robin also alighting on vessels in the German Ocean. — ED. scnptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done...attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those who reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 512 pages
...Selborne, observes, — " faunists are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms ; the reason is plain, because all that may be done...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." Just such a one is Mr. Waterton ; and let none say his life has been wasted. The power which we have... | |
 | 1857 - 510 pages
...Sclborne, observes,— " faunists are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms; the reason is plain, because all that may be done...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." Just such a one is Mr. Waterton; and let none say his life has been wasted. The power which we have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1858 - 454 pages
...vessels in the German Uc«ai. — Efl. scnptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because alJ that may be done at home in a man's study, but the...attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those who reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 pages
...Fauna." 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...by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematies are, I observe, much too vague in their specific differences ; which are almost universally... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...Fauna. 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...by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific differences, which are almost universally... | |
 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 pages
...Fauna." 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...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country. running in general terms. But our countryman, the excellent Mr. Ray, is the only describer that conveys... | |
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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... 
