The Natural History of SelborneJ.M. Dent, 1906 - 255 Seiten |
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April attention autumn BARRINGTON DEAR SIR bird of passage birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR DAINES BARRINGTON Selborne district eggs ESQUIRE Selborne feeding feet female field fieldfares flocks forest frequently frost garden gentleman Gibraltar Gilbert White Gross-beak ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON hoopoes house-martins hundred inches insects late le ham legs LETTER Linnæus male manner martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls parish perhaps procured quadrupeds RAII rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels season seems seen sing snow soon species spring stone stone curlew strange suppose Sussex swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vast village weather white-throat wild willow-wren wings winter Wolmer-forest wonder Woodlark woods young
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Seite 252 - 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.
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Seite 175 - ... afflicted with cruel 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 :l — 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 1 For a similar practice, White refers us...
Seite 39 - ... in the human head. When deer are thirsty they plunge their noses, like some horses, very deep under water while in the act of drinking, and continue them in that situation for a considerable time : but to obviate any inconveniency, they can open two vents, one at the inner corner of each eye, having a communication with the nose.
Seite 195 - ... of whose complacency and decent reserve more may be said than can with truth of every individual of her sex ; since she is - quse nee reticere loquenti, Nee prior ipsa loqui didicit resonabilis echo.
Seite 184 - This incident is no bad solution of that strange circumstance which grave historians as well as the poets assert, of exposed children being sometimes nurtured by female wild beasts that probably had lost their young. For it is not one whit more marvellous that Romulus and Remus, in their infant state, should be nursed by a she-wolf, than that a poor little...
Seite 170 - A pound of common grease may be procured for four pence ; and about six pounds of grease will dip a pound of rushes ; and one pound of rushes may be bought for one shilling : so that a pound of rushes, medicated and ready for use, will cost three shillings.
Seite 201 - Th' autumnal bulb, till pale, declining days ? The GOD of SEASONS ; whose pervading power Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower : He bids each flower His quickening word obey, Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay.
Seite 184 - LANDS that are subject to frequent inundations are always poor ; and probably, the reason may be because the worms are drowned. The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of Nature, than the incurious are aware of...
Seite 141 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.