 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...feelings, if pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, am) in the same spot where they first drew it. Alas, for...age is past ; but it has much exceeded in duration ihat of man.' His attention was strongly arrested by the circumstance, 011 this isltnd, of a vast number... | |
 | 1827 - 604 pages
...be more consonant ' to their feelings, if Pelicans have any, than quietly to re' sign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the ' same spot where they first drew it.' * Blackwood's Magazine, Oct. 1827. We know not whether Captain Flinders was aware, when he wrote these... | |
 | James Montgomery - English poetry - 1827 - 296 pages
...thing be more consonant to their feelings, if Pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it" — Captain Flinders was particularly struck with the appearance of one of these islands, on the surface... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 580 pages
...more consonant to their feelings, if pelicans haveany, than quietly to resign their breath, surroundod by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it.' " — Pref. pi From the pelicans that inhabit this sequestered spot, the poet proceeds to investigate... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...anything be more consonant to their feelings, if Pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it."— Captain Flinders was particularly struck •with the appearance of one of these islands, on the surface... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1841 - 400 pages
...thing be more consonant to their feelings, if Pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it." — Captain Flinders was particularly struck with the B 2 appearance of one of these islands, on the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 596 pages
...anything be more consonant to their feelings, if pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it." The following is one of the poet's pictures of the training of the young : " On beetling rocks the... | |
 | John Foster - Essays - 1858 - 624 pages
...uninhabited island, situate upon au unknown coast, near the antipodes of Europe ; nor can anything be more consonant to the feelings, if pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it. Alas, for the pelicans... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 pages
...uninhabited island, situate upon an unknown coast, near the antipodes of Europe ; nor can anything be more consonant to the feelings, if pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it. Alas, for the pelicans... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 pages
...thing be more consonant to their feelings, if pelicans have any, than quietly to resign their breath, surrounded by their progeny, and in the same spot where they first drew it." The following is one of the poet's pictures of the training of the young : "On beetling rocks the little... | |
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... a hidden lagoon of an uninhabited island, situate upon an unknown coast near the antipodes of Europe; nor can anything be more consonant to the feelings, if pelicans have any. than quietly to resign their breath, whilst surrounded by their progeny,... 
