The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... persons see with regret the country more and more deserted every day , as they know that every well- regulated family of property , which quits a village to reside in a town , injures the place that is forsaken in many material ...
... persons see with regret the country more and more deserted every day , as they know that every well- regulated family of property , which quits a village to reside in a town , injures the place that is forsaken in many material ...
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... person with this writer's patient observation would have made many remarks highly valuable . Men of intelligence , like him , are wanted to promote an intimacy between the library and the plough . The man of books sees many errors which ...
... person with this writer's patient observation would have made many remarks highly valuable . Men of intelligence , like him , are wanted to promote an intimacy between the library and the plough . The man of books sees many errors which ...
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... persons lately sat down to a déjeuner under the shade of its spreading branches . - ED . Our largest trees are quite insignificant when compared with one our present excellent bishop of New Zealand discovered in one of the Tonga Islands ...
... persons lately sat down to a déjeuner under the shade of its spreading branches . - ED . Our largest trees are quite insignificant when compared with one our present excellent bishop of New Zealand discovered in one of the Tonga Islands ...
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... person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to 1750 ...
... person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to 1750 ...
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... person assures me , that his father has often told him that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the Forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard . For she came out of the great road at Liphock , which ...
... person assures me , that his father has often told him that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the Forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard . For she came out of the great road at Liphock , which ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young