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... species increase to an enormous extent , until the artificial conditions , produced by an interference with the harmonies of nature , become merged into a new equilibrium in accordance with the new con- ditions . No other class of ...
... species increase to an enormous extent , until the artificial conditions , produced by an interference with the harmonies of nature , become merged into a new equilibrium in accordance with the new con- ditions . No other class of ...
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... species a uniform plan . If we take a beech twig , for instance , we shall observe that the buds are produced in two opposite rows , so that they occur alternately on opposite sides of the twig . The first , third , and fifth being over ...
... species a uniform plan . If we take a beech twig , for instance , we shall observe that the buds are produced in two opposite rows , so that they occur alternately on opposite sides of the twig . The first , third , and fifth being over ...
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... species remarkable for their size , age , or historical associations ; but all this has been so ad- mirably done already in a volume entitled the " Forest Trees of Great Britain , " 1 that it may be omitted with advantage . The OAK2 is ...
... species remarkable for their size , age , or historical associations ; but all this has been so ad- mirably done already in a volume entitled the " Forest Trees of Great Britain , " 1 that it may be omitted with advantage . The OAK2 is ...
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... species , for there is no other in which the Englishman has so great a pride . The Britons regarded it as a symbol of their god of thunder . The Yule - log , burnt at Christmas in honour of their deities , was always of oak . The Druids ...
... species , for there is no other in which the Englishman has so great a pride . The Britons regarded it as a symbol of their god of thunder . The Yule - log , burnt at Christmas in honour of their deities , was always of oak . The Druids ...
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Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. those of any other species . Foremost is , or was , that of Herne the hunter , who , as Shakspeare says , " Doth all the winter time , at still midnight , Walk round about an oak , with great ragged horns , And ...
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. those of any other species . Foremost is , or was , that of Herne the hunter , who , as Shakspeare says , " Doth all the winter time , at still midnight , Walk round about an oak , with great ragged horns , And ...
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Página 148 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 147 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 93 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone.
Página 59 - For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings. He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death Has lifted up for all, that he shall go To his long resting-place without a tear.
Página 259 - About nine an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated regions, and continuing, without any interruption, till the close of the day.
Página 56 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Página 35 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd and their pulse beat low, And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view.
Página 8 - As the sward and moss disappear with the brushwood from the sides of the mountains, the waters falling in rain are no longer impeded in their course ; and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive...
Página 253 - ... the mean number of viscid globules which occur on one-tenth of an inch of the elastic spiral line, at the ordinary degree of tension, the product will be 140, the mean number of globules deposited on seven-tenths of an inch of the elastic spiral line; this product multiplied by...