 | Gilbert White - 1897 - 592 Seiten
...coo.1' 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...the life and conversation of animals is a concern of mnch more trouble and difficulty, and is not to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 286 Seiten
...were too apt to content themselves with general terms and bare descriptions ; the reason, he says, is plain, — " because all that may be done at home...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." He himself had the true inquisitiveness and activity, and the loving, discriminating eye. He saw the... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 290 Seiten
...were too apt to content themselves with general terms and bare descriptions ; the reason, he says, is plain, — " because all that may be done at home...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." He himself had the true inquisitiveness and activity, and the loving, discriminating eye. He saw the... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 324 Seiten
...themselves with general terms and bare descriptions ; the reason, he says, is plain, — " be^ cause all that may be done at home in a man's study ; but...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." He himself had the true inquisitiveness and activity, and the loving, discriminating eye. He saw the... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 320 Seiten
...themselves with general terms and bare descriptions; the reason, he says, is plain, — "be^ cause all that may be done at home in a man's study; but...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." He himself had the true inquisitiveness and activity, and the loving, discriminating eye. He saw the... | |
 | 1905 - 870 Seiten
...lover the strange ways of the beasts and birds and flowers, and how he was ready to acknowledge that " the investigation of the life and conversation of animals is a concern of much trouble and difficulty, and is not to be obtained but by the active and inquisitive." Yet White could... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 Seiten
...Fauna. 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...by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much too vague in their specific differences ; which are almost universally... | |
 | Charles Sutherland Elton - 1927 - 280 Seiten
...you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions and a few synonyms ; the reason for this is plain, because all that may be done at home in...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." — GILBERT WHITE, 1771. i. ECOLOGY is a new name for a very old subject. It simply means scientific... | |
 | Walter Johnson - 1928 - 372 Seiten
...stupefying lists of synonyms copied from hasty or irresponsible species-makers can be achieved in one's study, " but the investigation of the life and conversation...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country " (£)./?., X). Direct personal watching and inquiry alone can yield satisfaction. The naturalist should... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 Seiten
...taxonomic. "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...inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country" (136). Hume's confidence in the replicability of knowledge from one text to another is met, in this... | |
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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... 
