The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... remarkable for its extreme accuracy , its pleasing style , and the agreeable and varied information it contains . In order to enable our readers to enter more fully into the merits of the " Natural History of Selborne , " some account ...
... remarkable for its extreme accuracy , its pleasing style , and the agreeable and varied information it contains . In order to enable our readers to enter more fully into the merits of the " Natural History of Selborne , " some account ...
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... remarkable places . In many respects you will easily beat Plot : he is too credulous sometimes trifling , and sometimes superstitious ; and at all times ready to make a needless display and ostentation of erudition . Your knowledge of ...
... remarkable places . In many respects you will easily beat Plot : he is too credulous sometimes trifling , and sometimes superstitious ; and at all times ready to make a needless display and ostentation of erudition . Your knowledge of ...
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... remarkable are certainly more elegant and graceful : the former , I think , has been termed by Gilpin , the " Venus of British trees . The plane and horse - chestnut will outvie it in a dense and deep rich foliage , while the oak will ...
... remarkable are certainly more elegant and graceful : the former , I think , has been termed by Gilpin , the " Venus of British trees . The plane and horse - chestnut will outvie it in a dense and deep rich foliage , while the oak will ...
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... remarkable for sending forth two streams into two different seas . The one to the south becomes a branch of the Arun , running to Arundel , and so falling into the British Channel ; the other to the north . The Selborne stream makes one ...
... remarkable for sending forth two streams into two different seas . The one to the south becomes a branch of the Arun , running to Arundel , and so falling into the British Channel ; the other to the north . The Selborne stream makes one ...
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... remarkable for timber , and infamous for roads . The oaks of Temple and Blackmoor stand high in the esti- mation of purveyors , and have furnished much naval timber ; while the trees on the freestone grow large , but are what workmen ...
... remarkable for timber , and infamous for roads . The oaks of Temple and Blackmoor stand high in the esti- mation of purveyors , and have furnished much naval timber ; while the trees on the freestone grow large , but are what workmen ...
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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