The Journal of a Naturalist ...Carey & Lea, 1831 - 286 sider |
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... kind . We can yet trace , though at places but obscurely , the roads that connected this en- campment with other posts in adjoining villages . A few years sweep away commonly all traces of roads of later periods , and the testimony of ...
... kind . We can yet trace , though at places but obscurely , the roads that connected this en- campment with other posts in adjoining villages . A few years sweep away commonly all traces of roads of later periods , and the testimony of ...
Side 22
... kind greatly esteemed for toasting ; and we likewise manu- facture a thicker and better sort , though we do not con- tend in the market with the productions of north Wilts , or the deeper pastures of Cheshire or Huntingdon . The ...
... kind greatly esteemed for toasting ; and we likewise manu- facture a thicker and better sort , though we do not con- tend in the market with the productions of north Wilts , or the deeper pastures of Cheshire or Huntingdon . The ...
Side 24
... kind of armed force , would certainly support other vegetation , alien introductions , for a time , but the profit would not always be adequate . In a piece of land of this nature I have suppressed the natural pro- duce , by altering ...
... kind of armed force , would certainly support other vegetation , alien introductions , for a time , but the profit would not always be adequate . In a piece of land of this nature I have suppressed the natural pro- duce , by altering ...
Side 37
... kind , crowd the very bed - rooms of our cottages with them in dripping seasons , and bask them in every sunny gleam that breaks out : this is attended with infinite trouble ; and as few farmers , who have so many other concerns on ...
... kind , crowd the very bed - rooms of our cottages with them in dripping seasons , and bask them in every sunny gleam that breaks out : this is attended with infinite trouble ; and as few farmers , who have so many other concerns on ...
Side 42
... its hamadryad is left alone in the land to mourn her lost companions . This tree is not mentioned as being at all comparable with the gigantic productions of the kind that we have accounts of , and AGE OF TREES . 43 perhaps by many would ...
... its hamadryad is left alone in the land to mourn her lost companions . This tree is not mentioned as being at all comparable with the gigantic productions of the kind that we have accounts of , and AGE OF TREES . 43 perhaps by many would ...
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Side 160 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Side 7 - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
Side 57 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Side 290 - Arts, the work will be exceedingly rich. Great attention was given to this in the German work, and the Editors have been anxious to render it, by the necessary additions, as perfect as possible. To gentlemen of the Bar, the work will be peculiarly valuable, as in cases where legal subjects are treated, an account is given of the provisions of Anieri-, can, English, French, Prussian, Austrian, and Civil Law.
Side 129 - ... as it is appointed the earliest of risers, it would commonly be famished. In the hot summer of 1825, many of the young brood of the season perished from want; the mornings were without dew, and consequently few or no worms were to be obtained ; and we found them dead under the trees, having expired on their roostings. It was particularly distressing, for no relief could be- given, to hear the constant clamor and importunity of the young for food.
Side 147 - We observed this summer two common thrushes frequenting the shrubs on the green in our garden. From the slenderness of their forms, and the freshness of their plumage, we pronounced them to be birds of the preceding summer. There was an association and friendship between them that called our attention to their actions ; one of them seemed ailing or feeble from some bodily accident, for, though it hopped about, yet it appeared unable to obtain a sufficiency of food.
Side 31 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Side 291 - The variety of topics is of course vast, and they are treated in a manner which is at once so full of information and so interesting, that the work, instead of being merely referred to, might be regularly perused with as much pleasure as profit.