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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... night and eat his gooseberries , and gives a useful hint to farmers and others , when he says that rooks and crows destroy an immense number of chaffers , and that were it not for these birds the chaffers would destroy everything . In ...
... night and eat his gooseberries , and gives a useful hint to farmers and others , when he says that rooks and crows destroy an immense number of chaffers , and that were it not for these birds the chaffers would destroy everything . In ...
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... night , " Summer to winter , harvest to seed time , " Heat shall to cold in regular array " Succeed . " - Heav'n taught , so sang the Hebrew bard A HARVEST SCENE . WAKED by the gentle gleamings of the morn , Soon clad , the reaper ...
... night , " Summer to winter , harvest to seed time , " Heat shall to cold in regular array " Succeed . " - Heav'n taught , so sang the Hebrew bard A HARVEST SCENE . WAKED by the gentle gleamings of the morn , Soon clad , the reaper ...
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... night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth , except in several places in Bushy Park , where there were drains dug and covered with earth , on which the snow continued to lie , whether ...
... night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth , except in several places in Bushy Park , where there were drains dug and covered with earth , on which the snow continued to lie , whether ...
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... night - to feed in the brooks and meadows : returning again with the dawn of the morming ! Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is per- fectly naked ) , it might make a valuable ...
... night - to feed in the brooks and meadows : returning again with the dawn of the morming ! Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is per- fectly naked ) , it might make a valuable ...
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... night - hunters , who perpetually harass them , * At Lord Stawel's death , the property reverted to Heneage Legge , Esq . , afterwards to the Hon . Henry Legge and the Hon . and Rev. Augustus Legge , at whose death it was inherited by ...
... night - hunters , who perpetually harass them , * At Lord Stawel's death , the property reverted to Heneage Legge , Esq . , afterwards to the Hon . Henry Legge and the Hon . and Rev. Augustus Legge , at whose death it was inherited by ...
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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).