The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: In the County of SouthamptonSwan Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1891 - 568 pages |
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... WEATHER . A NATURALIST'S CALENDAR . 136 317 319 341 355 363 367 DR . AIKIN'S ADVERTISEMENT 379 PREFACE TO THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR 383 A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF WHITE'S AND MARKWICK'S CALENDARS . 385 THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE . LETTERS ...
... WEATHER . A NATURALIST'S CALENDAR . 136 317 319 341 355 363 367 DR . AIKIN'S ADVERTISEMENT 379 PREFACE TO THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR 383 A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF WHITE'S AND MARKWICK'S CALENDARS . 385 THE ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE . LETTERS ...
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... WEATHER , occasion- FLGE 517 520 521 522 ally happening in the Winter months 523 · APPENDIX . Ten Letters from the Rev. Gilbert White to Robert Marsham , F.R.S. , 1790-1793 • 525 INDEX 561 THE HERMITAGE . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Pago ...
... WEATHER , occasion- FLGE 517 520 521 522 ally happening in the Winter months 523 · APPENDIX . Ten Letters from the Rev. Gilbert White to Robert Marsham , F.R.S. , 1790-1793 • 525 INDEX 561 THE HERMITAGE . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Pago ...
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... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when sea- soned , it does not scale . Decent ...
... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when sea- soned , it does not scale . Decent ...
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... weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest from this observation , viz . Nov. 29 , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth ...
... weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest from this observation , viz . Nov. 29 , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth ...
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... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when sea- soned , it does not scale . Decent ...
... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when sea- soned , it does not scale . Decent ...
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Page 87 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 187 - 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 xxv - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Page 58 - While o'er the cliff th' awaken'd churn-owl hung Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song ; While high in air, and pois'd upon his wings, Unseen, the soft enamour'd woodlark sings: These, NATURE'S works, the curious mind employ, Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms, a pleasing kind of pain Steals o'er the cheek, and thrills the creeping vein ! Each rural sight, each sound, each smell combine ; The tinkling sheep-bell, or the breath of kine ; The new-mown hay that scents...
Page 113 - For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is 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 187 - THE summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phenomena ; for, besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smoky fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.
Page xxv - ... the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit.
Page 152 - Sounds do not always give us pleasure according to their sweetness and melody; nor do harsh sounds always displease. We are more apt to be captivated or disgusted with the associations which they promote, than with the notes themselves. Thus the shrilling of the field cricket, though sharp and stridulous, yet marvellously delights some hearers, filling their minds with a train of summer ideas of every thing that is rural, verdurous, and joyous.
Page 95 - MU.TON. 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 19 - I procured this autumn, most artificially platted, and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It was so compact and well filled, that it would roll across the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.