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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... build new ones by ten days or a fortnight . He speaks with some degree of triumph to having ricked his meadow hay in delicate order , and that Thomas had seen a pole - cat run across his garden . He records the circumstance of boys ...
... build new ones by ten days or a fortnight . He speaks with some degree of triumph to having ricked his meadow hay in delicate order , and that Thomas had seen a pole - cat run across his garden . He records the circumstance of boys ...
Side 3
... arbour on the side of a hill . A grotesque building , contrived by a young gentleman , who used on cocasion to appear in the character of a hermit . By fancy plann'd ; as once th ' inventive maid R 2 INVITATION TO SELBORNE. ...
... arbour on the side of a hill . A grotesque building , contrived by a young gentleman , who used on cocasion to appear in the character of a hermit . By fancy plann'd ; as once th ' inventive maid R 2 INVITATION TO SELBORNE. ...
Side 22
... building of dry walls against banks , a valuable species of fencing , much in use in this village ; and for mending of roads . This rug is ragged and stubborn , and will not hew to a smooth face ; but is very durable : yet , as these ...
... building of dry walls against banks , a valuable species of fencing , much in use in this village ; and for mending of roads . This rug is ragged and stubborn , and will not hew to a smooth face ; but is very durable : yet , as these ...
Side 46
... build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the ground , and sometimes in thistles . They breed as many as eight in a litter , in a little round nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . † One of these nests I procured ...
... build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the ground , and sometimes in thistles . They breed as many as eight in a litter , in a little round nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . † One of these nests I procured ...
Side 49
... builds its nest in the same form and of the same materials as its parent , and for the most part in a similar situation ; but he thinks that , if the eggs were transposed into the nest of some nearly related species , and the produce ...
... builds its nest in the same form and of the same materials as its parent , and for the most part in a similar situation ; but he thinks that , if the eggs were transposed into the nest of some nearly related species , and the produce ...
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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).