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... common proverbs about Candlemas Day : - " The shepherd would sooner see the wolf enter his stable on Candlemas Day than the sun . " And , " The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day , and when he finds snow , walks abroad ; but ...
... common proverbs about Candlemas Day : - " The shepherd would sooner see the wolf enter his stable on Candlemas Day than the sun . " And , " The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day , and when he finds snow , walks abroad ; but ...
Side 30
... common or uncommon ) which any of the readers of this Report may kindly send him . Such weather proverbs and sayings will form capital pegs on which to hang observations of the kind meant by Sir John Herschel . Did space permit , there ...
... common or uncommon ) which any of the readers of this Report may kindly send him . Such weather proverbs and sayings will form capital pegs on which to hang observations of the kind meant by Sir John Herschel . Did space permit , there ...
Side 48
... common - sense instinct of our remote British ancestors . The Rev. Adam Dickson , in his rare book , " The Husbandry of the Ancients , " * translates the remarks of Palladius thus : - " The best situation of lands is not so much on a ...
... common - sense instinct of our remote British ancestors . The Rev. Adam Dickson , in his rare book , " The Husbandry of the Ancients , " * translates the remarks of Palladius thus : - " The best situation of lands is not so much on a ...
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... common : we have found only six or seven specimens of it ; they were all obtained at Newsham . Two of these , an upper and a lower , are large and in an excellent state of preservation ; the others are quite small , but , like the large ...
... common : we have found only six or seven specimens of it ; they were all obtained at Newsham . Two of these , an upper and a lower , are large and in an excellent state of preservation ; the others are quite small , but , like the large ...
Side 91
... are cut diagonally short , so that their form and proportions are destroyed . The appearance thus presented is very common in sections of minute jaws ; and , unless clearly understood REMAINS OF REPTILES AND FISHES . 91.
... are cut diagonally short , so that their form and proportions are destroyed . The appearance thus presented is very common in sections of minute jaws ; and , unless clearly understood REMAINS OF REPTILES AND FISHES . 91.
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Side 3 - If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.
Side 29 - We would strongly recommend any of our readers whose occupations lead them to attend to the " signs of the weather," and who, from hearing a particular weather adage often repeated, and from noticing themselves a few remarkable instances of its verification, have " begun to put faith in it," to commence keeping a note-book, and to set down without bias all the instances which occur to them of the recognized antecedent, and the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the expected consequent, not omitting also...
Side 49 - The entire destruction of the wood that formerly covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces which supported the soil upon steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains, which have left many tracts of bare rock, where formerly were vineyards and cornfields.
Side 3 - The shepherd would rather see the wolf enter his stable on Candlemas day than the sun ; 2. The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas day, and when he finds snow, walks abroad ; but if he sees the sun shining, he draws back into his hole.
Side 49 - Were these limestone ledges once more provided with walls, to prevent the soil being washed down into the valley by the rain floods, and were fresh soil carried up from the hollows, where it must lie fathoms deep, magnificent crops would very soon be produced. It is well known also how soon the moisture of the climate would be affected by the restoration of the orchards. And when we remember the small quantity...
Side 223 - A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill, Is worth a plough of oxen, and all belongs there till.
Side 218 - A May flood never did good. Look at your corn in May, and you'll come weeping away. Look at the same in June, and you'll come home in another tune.
Side 30 - ... would be in itself an improbability, and that therefore, to have any weight, the majority should be a very decided one, and that not only in itself, but in reference to the neutral instances. We are all involuntarily much more strongly impressed by the fulfilment than by the failure of a prediction, and it is only when thus placing ourselves face to face with fact and experience that we can fully divest ourselves of this bias.
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