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Page 63
... ” " Alcmæon does not advance what is true , when he avers that goats breathe through their ears . " - HISTORY OF ANIMALS , Book I. chap . xi . SELBORNE , March 12 , 1768 . LETTER XV . TO THOMAS PENNANT , ESQ . OME OF SELBORNE . 63.
... ” " Alcmæon does not advance what is true , when he avers that goats breathe through their ears . " - HISTORY OF ANIMALS , Book I. chap . xi . SELBORNE , March 12 , 1768 . LETTER XV . TO THOMAS PENNANT , ESQ . OME OF SELBORNE . 63.
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... advances more than once . * Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms , and that is the viper . As you pro- pose the good of mankind to be an object of your ...
... advances more than once . * Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms , and that is the viper . As you pro- pose the good of mankind to be an object of your ...
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... advance this extraordinary provision of nature as a new instance of the wisdom of God in the creation . As I have not yet quite done with my history of the oedicnemus , or stone - curlew ; for I shall desire a gentleman in Sussex ( near ...
... advance this extraordinary provision of nature as a new instance of the wisdom of God in the creation . As I have not yet quite done with my history of the oedicnemus , or stone - curlew ; for I shall desire a gentleman in Sussex ( near ...
Page 88
... advance what they will on such subjects , yet there is such a propensity in mankind towards deceiving and being deceived , that one can- not safely relate anything from common report , especially in print , without expressing some ...
... advance what they will on such subjects , yet there is such a propensity in mankind towards deceiving and being deceived , that one can- not safely relate anything from common report , especially in print , without expressing some ...
Page 101
... into the writers on that subject little satisfaction is to be For this salicaria , or Sedge Warbler , see Letter XXVI . August 30 , 1769 . found . Ingenious men will readily advance plausible arguments to OF SELBORNE . 101.
... into the writers on that subject little satisfaction is to be For this salicaria , or Sedge Warbler , see Letter XXVI . August 30 , 1769 . found . Ingenious men will readily advance plausible arguments to OF SELBORNE . 101.
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Page 80 - 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.
Page 408 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 182 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Page 199 - 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. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Page 278 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 158 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Page 184 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...