The North British Review, Tom 40W. P. Kennedy, 1864 |
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... doubt correctly , that the " carved ivory " of the king - fisher's nest is composed of the accumulated castings of the old birds during incubation . Then pass on to the peculiar modes of fishing on the sands of the Norman coast , which ...
... doubt correctly , that the " carved ivory " of the king - fisher's nest is composed of the accumulated castings of the old birds during incubation . Then pass on to the peculiar modes of fishing on the sands of the Norman coast , which ...
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... doubt a woodcock is esteemed quite out of proportion to the quantity of food it affords . But that is because the delicate quality makes up for the little size . The love of victory cannot long entice a sports- man to make war on ...
... doubt a woodcock is esteemed quite out of proportion to the quantity of food it affords . But that is because the delicate quality makes up for the little size . The love of victory cannot long entice a sports- man to make war on ...
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... doubt he is well understood in the neighbourhood of Winchester . Our Scotch mavis uses a north- country dialect . A poor half - witted creature in the country of our youth , named Kitty White , used to complain that the very mavis was ...
... doubt he is well understood in the neighbourhood of Winchester . Our Scotch mavis uses a north- country dialect . A poor half - witted creature in the country of our youth , named Kitty White , used to complain that the very mavis was ...
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... doubt you do grow weary of the landscape before your windows , when you are spending a month at some place of tem- porary sojourn , seaside or inland ; but it is quite different with that which surrounds your own home . You do not try ...
... doubt you do grow weary of the landscape before your windows , when you are spending a month at some place of tem- porary sojourn , seaside or inland ; but it is quite different with that which surrounds your own home . You do not try ...
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... doubt , justified by Joule's experiments last mentioned , but he missed in consequence some valuable results which , though discoverable in permanent gases , become especially prominent in liquefiable gases , such as sulphurous acid and ...
... doubt , justified by Joule's experiments last mentioned , but he missed in consequence some valuable results which , though discoverable in permanent gases , become especially prominent in liquefiable gases , such as sulphurous acid and ...
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