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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... Remarkable Epitaphs . By T. J. PETTIGREW , F.R.S. , F.S.A. Early Travels in Palestine . Willi- bald , Sewulf , Benjamin of Tudela , Man- deville , La Brocquiere , and Maundrell ; all unabridged . Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT . Ellis's Early ...
... Remarkable Epitaphs . By T. J. PETTIGREW , F.R.S. , F.S.A. Early Travels in Palestine . Willi- bald , Sewulf , Benjamin of Tudela , Man- deville , La Brocquiere , and Maundrell ; all unabridged . Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT . Ellis's Early ...
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... remarkable for its extreme accuracy , its pleasing style , and the agreeable and varied information it contains . In order to enable our readers to enter more fully into the merits of the " Natural History of Selborne , " some account ...
... remarkable for its extreme accuracy , its pleasing style , and the agreeable and varied information it contains . In order to enable our readers to enter more fully into the merits of the " Natural History of Selborne , " some account ...
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... remarkable places . In many respects you will easily beat Plot : he is too credulous sometimes trifling , and sometimes superstitious ; and at all times ready to make a needless display and ostentation of erudition . Your knowledge of ...
... remarkable places . In many respects you will easily beat Plot : he is too credulous sometimes trifling , and sometimes superstitious ; and at all times ready to make a needless display and ostentation of erudition . Your knowledge of ...
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... remarkable are certainly more elegant and graceful : the former , I think , has been termed by Gilpin , the " Venus " of British trees . The plane and horse - chestnut will outvie it in a dense and deep rich foliage , while the oak will ...
... remarkable are certainly more elegant and graceful : the former , I think , has been termed by Gilpin , the " Venus " of British trees . The plane and horse - chestnut will outvie it in a dense and deep rich foliage , while the oak will ...
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... remarkable for sending forth two streams into two different seas . The one to the south becomes a branch of the Arun , running to Arundel , and so falling into the British Channel ; the other to the north . The Selborne stream makes one ...
... remarkable for sending forth two streams into two different seas . The one to the south becomes a branch of the Arun , running to Arundel , and so falling into the British Channel ; the other to the north . The Selborne stream makes one ...
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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.