 I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making a collection of all the birds in this part of North America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare...  The Annals of Philosophy - Strona 337pod redakcją - 1816Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1816 - Liczba stron: 528
...afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and • 1816.] Alexander Wilson. mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...part of North America. Now I don-t want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare says, on this notion, quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - Liczba stron: 442
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...part of North America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed... | |
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 304
...afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in Philadelphia part of the time. I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making a collection of all the ^ hirds in this part of North America. Now, I don't wish you to throw cold water, as Shakespeare says,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1830 - Liczba stron: 650
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...making a collection of all the birds in this part of plorth America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare says, on this notion, quixotic... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - Liczba stron: 576
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...part of North America. Now, I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakespeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1844 - Liczba stron: 558
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...part of North America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare says, on this notion, quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - Liczba stron: 404
...1804, he thus writes to his friend Lawson : " In three weeks I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...part of North America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - Liczba stron: 458
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making1 a collection of all the birds in this part of North America. Now, I don't want you to throw... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - Liczba stron: 200
...Lawfon, the engraver of the work, to whom he wrote thus : — " I am moft earneftly bent on purfuing my plan of making a collection of all the birds in...part of North America. Now, I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakefpeare fays, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been fo long accuftomed... | |
 | Samuel Neale - 1795 - Liczba stron: 550
...beauties, heretofore entirely unknown. Nor was that time distant. Wilson had written to a friend to say, " I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making a collection of all the birds in North America ; " and he proceeded, though still amid many difficulties, to carry out his plan. In... | |
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