The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarBell & Daldy, 1872 - 416 Seiten |
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... attended to , still he would be one of the greatest bene- factors to his countrymen in general , who would convince them that the richest mine of national wealth lies within six inches of the surface , and who would teach them the most ...
... attended to , still he would be one of the greatest bene- factors to his countrymen in general , who would convince them that the richest mine of national wealth lies within six inches of the surface , and who would teach them the most ...
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... attended the annual election of Fellows at Oriel College , where the gen- tlemen commoners were allowed the use of the common - room after dinner . This liberty they seldom availed themselves of , except on the occasion of Mr. White's ...
... attended the annual election of Fellows at Oriel College , where the gen- tlemen commoners were allowed the use of the common - room after dinner . This liberty they seldom availed themselves of , except on the occasion of Mr. White's ...
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... attend an election . I was immediately packed in a basket , and carried , slung by the servant's side , to their place of abode . As we rode very hard for forty miles , and as I had never been on horseback before , I found myself ...
... attend an election . I was immediately packed in a basket , and carried , slung by the servant's side , to their place of abode . As we rode very hard for forty miles , and as I had never been on horseback before , I found myself ...
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... attended by the stag - hounds , order- a fine addition to our feathered game . The little American partridge , the ortyx borealis of naturalists , has been introduced , and is now plentiful , in some counties in England . - W . J. * Red ...
... attended by the stag - hounds , order- a fine addition to our feathered game . The little American partridge , the ortyx borealis of naturalists , has been introduced , and is now plentiful , in some counties in England . - W . J. * Red ...
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... attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some workmen , in pulling down the battlements of a church tower early in the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) ...
... attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some workmen , in pulling down the battlements of a church tower early in the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) ...
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Seite 134 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 256 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Seite 221 - For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves...
Seite 212 - ... anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:* — Into the body of the tree, a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten.
Seite 210 - ... his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. As he ran about he used to make a humming noise with his lips, resembling the buzzing of bees. This lad was lean and sallow, and of a cadaverous complexion ; and, except in his favourite pursuit, in which he was wonderfully...
Seite 106 - 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.
Seite 246 - They are the housewife's barometer, foretelling her when it will rain; and are prognostics sometimes, she thinks, of ill or good luck, of the death of a near relation or the approach of an absent lover. By being the constant companions of her solitary hours they naturally become the objects of her superstition.