The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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Gilbert White. A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . It is impossible for any one to read that charming book , " The Natural History of Selbourne , " or Selborne , as it is now generally spelt , without wishing to know something ...
Gilbert White. A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . It is impossible for any one to read that charming book , " The Natural History of Selbourne , " or Selborne , as it is now generally spelt , without wishing to know something ...
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Gilbert White. father residing at Compton , in Surrey . Gilbert White's father was the grandson of Sir Sampson White ( knighted by Charles the Second , on his coronation ) , to whose memory a handsome monument is placed in St. Mary's ...
Gilbert White. father residing at Compton , in Surrey . Gilbert White's father was the grandson of Sir Sampson White ( knighted by Charles the Second , on his coronation ) , to whose memory a handsome monument is placed in St. Mary's ...
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Gilbert White. Thomas undertaking to give a review of his work in the " Gentleman's Magazine , " in which periodical it appeared in the year 1789. The following extract from it may interest our readers : - " Contemplative persons see ...
Gilbert White. Thomas undertaking to give a review of his work in the " Gentleman's Magazine , " in which periodical it appeared in the year 1789. The following extract from it may interest our readers : - " Contemplative persons see ...
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Gilbert White. preferment . There can be no doubt that the " shades of old Selborne , so lovely and sweet , " were peculiarly well adapted for the observations of a lover of nature ; and here Mr. White passed his days either in ...
Gilbert White. preferment . There can be no doubt that the " shades of old Selborne , so lovely and sweet , " were peculiarly well adapted for the observations of a lover of nature ; and here Mr. White passed his days either in ...
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Gilbert White. Thus , Madam , have I given you a faithful account of my satisfactions and sorrows , the latter of which are mostly upper- most . You are a lady , I understand , of much sensibility ; let me therefore make my case your own ...
Gilbert White. Thus , Madam , have I given you a faithful account of my satisfactions and sorrows , the latter of which are mostly upper- most . You are a lady , I understand , of much sensibility ; let me therefore make my case your own ...
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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