The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarBell & Daldy, 1870 - 416 pages |
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With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White, Edward Jesse. ce , ដ ....... Davis Selborne THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE ; WITH OBSERVATIONS.
With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White, Edward Jesse. ce , ដ ....... Davis Selborne THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE ; WITH OBSERVATIONS.
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With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White, Edward Jesse. e , 24 nd 512 eries . ous ble utitrolate DIN . dar le of Es of ries eauand Othe wings Edifine thers 34 s . 6d . ious With lical ed on ...
With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White, Edward Jesse. e , 24 nd 512 eries . ous ble utitrolate DIN . dar le of Es of ries eauand Othe wings Edifine thers 34 s . 6d . ious With lical ed on ...
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... White , which he kept with great care and neatness . From these Diaries , a pretty correct idea may be formed of Mr. White's habits of life . It is evident that he was strongly attached to the charms of rural life , and the tranquillity ...
... White , which he kept with great care and neatness . From these Diaries , a pretty correct idea may be formed of Mr. White's habits of life . It is evident that he was strongly attached to the charms of rural life , and the tranquillity ...
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... White's father was the grandson of Sir Sampson White ( knighted by Charles the Second , on his coronation ) , to whose memory a handsome monument is placed in St. Mary's Church , Oxford . In the year 1731 , his father came to Selborne ...
... White's father was the grandson of Sir Sampson White ( knighted by Charles the Second , on his coronation ) , to whose memory a handsome monument is placed in St. Mary's Church , Oxford . In the year 1731 , his father came to Selborne ...
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... White to be no unequal successor of Ray and Derham ; and that the History of the Priory is a curious tract of local ... White's family , we will proceed to an account of the Naturalist himself . He received his education at Basingstoke ...
... White to be no unequal successor of Ray and Derham ; and that the History of the Priory is a curious tract of local ... White's family , we will proceed to an account of the Naturalist himself . He received his education at Basingstoke ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn bees birds of passage breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequently frost garden Gilbert White grass ground haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 MARKWICK mentioned migration mild morning naturalist nest never night observed perhaps plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone curlew strange summer suppose swallows swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vast village vols weather WHITE wild wings winter wonder woods wren young
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Page 296 - 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.
Page 212 - ... anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:* — Into the body of the tree, a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten.
Page 210 - ... his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. As he ran about he used to make a humming noise with his lips, resembling the buzzing of bees. This lad was lean and sallow, and of a cadaverous complexion ; and, except in his favourite pursuit, in which he was wonderfully...
Page 146 - I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw...
Page 33 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd 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.