Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneMacmillan and Company, 1875 - 591 páginas |
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... four generations how and what to observe - in fact , he taught them the " Art of Observation . " For the above reason , there- fore , White's " Selborne " has held its own as a standard book for a hundred years , and will probably be as ...
... four generations how and what to observe - in fact , he taught them the " Art of Observation . " For the above reason , there- fore , White's " Selborne " has held its own as a standard book for a hundred years , and will probably be as ...
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... four inches . long , the cardo ( hinge ) passing for a head and mouth . It is in reality a bivalve of the Linnæan genus of Mytilus , and the species of Crista Galli ; called by Lister , Rastellum ; by Rum- phius , Ostreum plicatum minus ...
... four inches . long , the cardo ( hinge ) passing for a head and mouth . It is in reality a bivalve of the Linnæan genus of Mytilus , and the species of Crista Galli ; called by Lister , Rastellum ; by Rum- phius , Ostreum plicatum minus ...
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... four in the afternoon , and then return to their feed- ing . During this great proportion of the day they drop much dung , in which insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this ...
... four in the afternoon , and then return to their feed- ing . During this great proportion of the day they drop much dung , in which insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this ...
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... four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county hospital . Now , is it likely that these poor little birds ( which perhaps had not been hatched but a few weeks ) should , at that late season of the year , and ...
... four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county hospital . Now , is it likely that these poor little birds ( which perhaps had not been hatched but a few weeks ) should , at that late season of the year , and ...
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... four inches and a quarter , and the same in its tail . We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a : half below the freezing point , within doors . The 44 [ LETT . THE ...
... four inches and a quarter , and the same in its tail . We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a : half below the freezing point , within doors . The 44 [ LETT . THE ...
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The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton Gilbert White Visualização integral - 1905 |
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Allectus animal appear April autumn bird-catchers birds bishop Bishop of Winchester blackbird blackcap breed called chaffinches church colour common cuckoo curious deer district eggs feed feet fieldfares fish flocks Forest frequently frost garden Gilbert White grass ground haunt hirundines Hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON hoopoe house-martins inches insects July July 14 July 22 June June 11 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnæus London manner martins migration morning natural neighbour nest never Newton Valence night nightingale observed owls pair parish ponds prior quadrupeds redwings remarkable season seems Selborne Sept sings snake song species specimen spots spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallow swift tail THOMAS PENNANT thrush titmouse trees village wagtail weather White wild wings winter Wolmer wonderful Woodlark woodpecker woods wren young
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Página 68 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Página 523 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Página 23 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose; Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface.
Página 78 - Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Página 290 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 96 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 251 - Yet there is a season of the year (usually the beginning- of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning ; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant field. The motives that impel him to undertake these rambles seem to be of the amorous kind : his fancy then becomes intent on sexual...
Página 137 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices : for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only "the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Página 147 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight.
Página 121 - 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...