 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fatma. Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonymies : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study ; but the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna. Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonymes :- the reason is plain; because all that may be done at home in a man's study ; but the investigation... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna. * Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions,...difficulty, and is not to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematists are, I observe, much... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna. Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions,...difficulty, and is not to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna. Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions,...difficulty, and is not to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1842 - 342 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna. Faunists,as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions and a few synonymes : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study ; but the investigation... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1843 - 424 pages
...whole tenor of his book, and from some passages in it especially. It was his opinion that " Faunists are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms;" and he adds, " the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study, but the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1850 - 458 pages
...have known instances of the robin also alighting on vessels in the German Ocean. — ED. scnptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because...difficulty, and is not to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those who reside much in the country. Foreign systematics are, I observe, much... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1854 - 538 pages
...able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna. Paunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonymes: the reason is plain, because all that may be done at home in a man's study ; but the investigation... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 512 pages
...and more widely cultivated scholar in the same school, White of Selborne, observes, — " faunists are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and...difficulty, and is not to be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country." Just such a one is Mr. Waterton ; and let... | |
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Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain : because all that may be done at home in a man's study; but the investigation of the life and conversation of animals is a concern of much... 
