The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of SouthamptonMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1906 - 476 pages |
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... matters of less and more , and this edition has been arranged in the belief that there will be readers who will be glad to have White's work as he left it himself , with no other appendix than the few paragraphs which a friend selected ...
... matters of less and more , and this edition has been arranged in the belief that there will be readers who will be glad to have White's work as he left it himself , with no other appendix than the few paragraphs which a friend selected ...
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... continuation of them , would they ever be deemed a matter of singular satisfaction and improvement . GIL . WHITE . SELBORNE , January 1st , 1788 . THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE X ADVERTISEMENT.
... continuation of them , would they ever be deemed a matter of singular satisfaction and improvement . GIL . WHITE . SELBORNE , January 1st , 1788 . THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE X ADVERTISEMENT.
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... matter ; will not cut without difficulty , nor easily strike fire with steel . Being often found in broad flat pieces , it makes good pavement for paths about houses , never 1 To surbed stone is to set it edgewise , contrary to the ...
... matter ; will not cut without difficulty , nor easily strike fire with steel . Being often found in broad flat pieces , it makes good pavement for paths about houses , never 1 To surbed stone is to set it edgewise , contrary to the ...
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... matter of talk and wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeomen - prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess that it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld , superior to any thing in Mr ...
... matter of talk and wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeomen - prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess that it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld , superior to any thing in Mr ...
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... matter out of doubt , whether it be a non - descript species or not . I suspect much there may be two species of water - rats . Ray says , and Linnaeus after him , that the water - rat is web- footed behind . Now I have discovered a rat ...
... matter out of doubt , whether it be a non - descript species or not . I suspect much there may be two species of water - rats . Ray says , and Linnaeus after him , that the water - rat is web- footed behind . Now I have discovered a rat ...
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abound Andalusia appear April autumn BARRINGTON DEAR SIR Berne birds bishop bishop of Winchester breed called canons cetero chaffinches chapter-house church convent curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR DAINES BARRINGTON Selborne district domino ecclesie eciam eggs ejusdem election ESQUIRE ESQUIRE DEAR SIR feet female fieldfares firmiter injungendo mandamus forest frequent garden ground Gurdon hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON house-martins hujusmodi inches insects July June Knights Templars late le ham LETTER male mandamus manner migration mild nest never Newton Valence night observed parish perhaps predicti preter priorem Priory Priory of Selborne quadrupeds quatinus quod rain remarkable remiges ring-dove season seems seen Selborne Seleburne showers sings singulis snow species spring stone curlew summer suppose swallow swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vero vestri vicar village Vobis vulg weather wings winter Wolmer woods young
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Page 253 - 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 175 - ... afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident fore-fathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrewash was made thus :* — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten.
Page 275 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Page 318 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Page 166 - My neighbour's horse will not only not stay by himself abroad, but he will not bear to be left alone in a strange stable, without discovering the utmost impatience, and endeavouring to break the rack and manger with his fore feet. He has been known to leap out at a stable window, through which dung was thrown, after company ; and yet, in other respects, is remarkably quiet.
Page 215 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 353 - ... season of the year (usually the beginning of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant field. The motives that impel him to undertake these rambles seem to be of the amorous kind ; his fancy then becomes intent on sexual attachments,...
Page 215 - They are particularly fond of kitchens and bakers' ovens, on account of their perpetual warmth. Tender insects that live abroad either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or else doze away the cold uncomfortable months in profound slumbers ; but these, residing as it were in a torrid zone, are always alert and merry : a good Christmas fire is to them like the heats of the dog-days. Though they are frequently heard by day, yet is their natural time of motion only in the night.
Page 122 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Page 141 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.