The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1898 - 416 sider |
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... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and coppices ...
... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and coppices ...
Side 37
... April I heard a slight twittering . This continued for some days , and I then inspected the nest and found a small hole about the size of a pea . This day by day increased , and at length three swallows emerged from their winter ...
... April I heard a slight twittering . This continued for some days , and I then inspected the nest and found a small hole about the size of a pea . This day by day increased , and at length three swallows emerged from their winter ...
Side 37
... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish ...
... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish ...
Side 61
... April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , -The history of the stone curlew , charadrius pedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman in ...
... April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , -The history of the stone curlew , charadrius pedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman in ...
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... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two ...
... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two ...
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Side 134 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Side 17 - II.— History of the Revolt in the Netherlands, the Trials of Counts Egmont and Horn, the Siege of Antwerp, and the Disturbance of France preceding the Reign of Henry IV.
Side 5 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.
Side 14 - PICKERING'S History of the Races of Man, and their Geographical Distribution. With AN ANALYTICAL SYNOPSIS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN by Dr. Hall. With a Map of the World and 12 coloured Plates. 5*. PINDAR. Translated
Side 19 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5*. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Scots. 2 vols. 5.?.
Side 17 - Robbers ( with Schiller's original Preface), Fiesco, Love and Intrigue, Demetrius, Ghost Seer, Sport of Divinity. The Dramas in this volume are translated into Prose.
Side 6 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and Unabridged, with Variorum Notes. Edited by an English Churchman. With 2 Maps and Portrait.
Side 298 - 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.
Side 16 - A Polyglot of Foreign. Comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish. With English Translations & a General Index by HG Bohn. 5*.
Side 4 - DICTIONARY of Latin and Greek Quotations ; including Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, Law Terms and Phrases. With all the Quantities marked, and English Translations. With Index Verborum (622 pages).