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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Side viii
... passage from ' The Cyder ' of John Philips : - Who knows but that once more This mount may journey , and , his present site Forsaken , to thy neighbour's bounds transfer Thy goodly plants , affording matter strange For law debates ...
... passage from ' The Cyder ' of John Philips : - Who knows but that once more This mount may journey , and , his present site Forsaken , to thy neighbour's bounds transfer Thy goodly plants , affording matter strange For law debates ...
Side xviii
... passage or two from an article which appeared some years ago in the New Monthly Magazine , on the village of Selborne , written by one who appears to have visited it out of pure love for the memory of Mr. White , and from the pleasure ...
... passage or two from an article which appeared some years ago in the New Monthly Magazine , on the village of Selborne , written by one who appears to have visited it out of pure love for the memory of Mr. White , and from the pleasure ...
Side 30
... passage ; but alas , since then Parliamentary enactments have deprived the labourers of much of their rights of common , by enclosing them , and thus much of their means of sub- sistence , and consequently of their prosperity , have ...
... passage ; but alas , since then Parliamentary enactments have deprived the labourers of much of their rights of common , by enclosing them , and thus much of their means of sub- sistence , and consequently of their prosperity , have ...
Side 33
... passage proves what an accurate observer Mr. White was of appa- rently trifling facts and circumstances in natural history . He might have added to the above that so economical is Nature , that when cattle are standing in the water ...
... passage proves what an accurate observer Mr. White was of appa- rently trifling facts and circumstances in natural history . He might have added to the above that so economical is Nature , that when cattle are standing in the water ...
Side 37
... passage or not . I think there is no doubt of it ; for in 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 ...
... passage or not . I think there is no doubt of it ; for in 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 ...
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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).