The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, Band 1J. Van Voorst, 1877 |
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... mentioned letters are a considerable number addressed to his brother - in - law , Thomas Barker , Esq . , of Lyndon Hall , in the county of Rutland , a distinguished scholar , critic , and naturalist of his day , and to that gentleman's ...
... mentioned letters are a considerable number addressed to his brother - in - law , Thomas Barker , Esq . , of Lyndon Hall , in the county of Rutland , a distinguished scholar , critic , and naturalist of his day , and to that gentleman's ...
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... mentioned Anne Holt , wife of John White , was born at Streatham , Nov. 1693 , and died at Selborne , Nov. 1739 . " ( Signed ) GIL . WHITE . " The portrait above mentioned of the younger Benja- min Hyde has been for some years my ...
... mentioned Anne Holt , wife of John White , was born at Streatham , Nov. 1693 , and died at Selborne , Nov. 1739 . " ( Signed ) GIL . WHITE . " The portrait above mentioned of the younger Benja- min Hyde has been for some years my ...
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... mentioned above was Governor of Carisbrook Castle during the imprisonment of Charles I. in that fortress , and appears to have won the good opinion of the captive king by his kindness , as is evident from the following note , which I ...
... mentioned above was Governor of Carisbrook Castle during the imprisonment of Charles I. in that fortress , and appears to have won the good opinion of the captive king by his kindness , as is evident from the following note , which I ...
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... mentioned , the only one from Gibraltar is of the date June 30 , 1771 , and the first from England is dated London , Jan. 1 , 1773 ; the others are all from Blackburn , of various dates , from November 1773 to October 1774. Gilbert ...
... mentioned , the only one from Gibraltar is of the date June 30 , 1771 , and the first from England is dated London , Jan. 1 , 1773 ; the others are all from Blackburn , of various dates , from November 1773 to October 1774. Gilbert ...
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... Barker , and it was Latinized Bercarius . . . . In the same hand I find William le Barker mentioned in Rutland as long ago as Edward the First's time . " ... measure , owed them . He was High Sheriff of xxviii MEMOIR .
... Barker , and it was Latinized Bercarius . . . . In the same hand I find William le Barker mentioned in Rutland as long ago as Edward the First's time . " ... measure , owed them . He was High Sheriff of xxviii MEMOIR .
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Seite 330 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Seite 181 - ... 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, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Seite 132 - 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 be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country.
Seite 181 - In a farm-yard, near the middle of this village, stands, at this day, a row of pollard-ashes, which, by the seams and long cicatrices down their sides, manifestly show that, in former times, they have been cleft asunder. These trees, when young and flexible, were severed and held open by wedges, while ruptured children, stript naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity.
Seite 262 - 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.
Seite 151 - ... funnel, as I have often observed with some degree of wonder. Five or six, or more feet down the chimney, does this little bird begin to form her nest about the middle of May, which consists, like that of the housemartin, of a crust or shell composed of dirt or mud, mixed with short pieces of straw, to render it tough and permanent ; with this difference, that whereas the.
Seite 56 - 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.
Seite 4 - ... the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit.
Seite 182 - 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. As the ceremonies necessary for such a consecration are no longer understood, all succession is at an end, and no such tree is known to exist in the manor or hundred. As to that on the Plestor, The late vicar stubb'd and burnt it...
Seite 128 - Part loosely wing the region; part more wise In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...