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 29
... wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeoman prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess that it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld , superior to anything in Mr. Astley's riding - school ...
... wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeoman prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess that it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld , superior to anything in Mr. Astley's riding - school ...
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... wonder how the young ones would manage , or whether they would be left to starve . То my great surprise I found the old birds carrying mud one morning , and most carefully closing the aperture of the nest upon the young ones who were ...
... wonder how the young ones would manage , or whether they would be left to starve . То my great surprise I found the old birds carrying mud one morning , and most carefully closing the aperture of the nest upon the young ones who were ...
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... wonder that the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , should be mentioned by the writers as a rare bird ; it abounds in all the champaign parts of Hampshire and Sussex , and breeds , I think , all the summer , having young ones , I ...
... wonder that the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , should be mentioned by the writers as a rare bird ; it abounds in all the champaign parts of Hampshire and Sussex , and breeds , I think , all the summer , having young ones , I ...
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... wonder to find that the organs of that little animal , when put in motion , gave a sensible vibration to the whole building ! This bird also sometimes makes a small squeak , repeated four or five times ; and I have observed that to ...
... wonder to find that the organs of that little animal , when put in motion , gave a sensible vibration to the whole building ! This bird also sometimes makes a small squeak , repeated four or five times ; and I have observed that to ...
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... wonder . If one looks into the writers on that subject , little satisfaction is to be found . Ingenious men will readily advance plausi ble arguments to support whatever theory they shall choose to maintain ; but then the misfortune is ...
... wonder . If one looks into the writers on that subject , little satisfaction is to be found . Ingenious men will readily advance plausi ble arguments to support whatever theory they shall choose to maintain ; but then the misfortune is ...
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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).