The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's CalendarGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 416 pages |
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Page vii
... persons see with regret the country more and more deserted every day , as they know that every well- regulated family of property , which quits a village to reside in a town , injures the place that is forsaken in many material ...
... persons see with regret the country more and more deserted every day , as they know that every well- regulated family of property , which quits a village to reside in a town , injures the place that is forsaken in many material ...
Page ix
... person with this writer's patient observation would have made many remarks highly valuable . Men of intelligence , like him , are wanted to promote an intimacy between the library and the plough . The man of books sees many errors which ...
... person with this writer's patient observation would have made many remarks highly valuable . Men of intelligence , like him , are wanted to promote an intimacy between the library and the plough . The man of books sees many errors which ...
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... persons lately sat down to a déjeûner under the shade of its spreading branches . - ED . Our largest trees are quite insignificant when compared with one our present excellent bishop of New Zealand discovered in one of the Tonga Islands ...
... persons lately sat down to a déjeûner under the shade of its spreading branches . - ED . Our largest trees are quite insignificant when compared with one our present excellent bishop of New Zealand discovered in one of the Tonga Islands ...
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... person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to 1750 ...
... person has measured it for a very long period . " If I had only measured the rain , " says he , " for the four first years from 1740 to 1743 , I should have said the mean rain at Lyndon was 16 inches for the year ; if from 1740 to 1750 ...
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... person assures me , that his father has often told him that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the Forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard . For she came out of the great road at Liphock , which ...
... person assures me , that his father has often told him that Queen Anne , as she was journeying on the Portsmouth road , did not think the Forest of Wolmer beneath her royal regard . For she came out of the great road at Liphock , which ...
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abound Andalusia animal appear April autumn bats birds of passage birds of prey blackcap breed brood cage called chaffinches cold colour cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR deer district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares flies flight flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost hatched haunt hedges hirundines hirundo hoopoes house-martins inches Indian antelope insects late legs LETTER Linnæus male mandible manner March MARKWICK mentioned migration mild morning naturalist neighbourhood neighbouring nest never night observed pair perhaps pheasant prey probably procured quadrupeds rain remarkable remiges ring-dove rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE showers sing snow soon species spring stone curlew suppose Sussex swallows swarm swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees vast village warm weather White wild wings winter Wolmer wonder woodcocks woods wren young
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