The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting Productions of Britain and the Surrounding Sea: In the Scenes which They Inhabit, and with Relation to the General Economy of Nature, and the Wisdom and Power of Its Author, Tom 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, 1830 |
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... actions of societies and in periodical journals , in essays and notices , which do not always state them with accu- racy , and which seldom point out how they are to be joined to the information already before the public . Farther ...
... actions of societies and in periodical journals , in essays and notices , which do not always state them with accu- racy , and which seldom point out how they are to be joined to the information already before the public . Farther ...
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... action , and persecute one and foster another , from dislike and regard founded on no- thing but our own caprice . Thus , instead of being , as we ought to be , the wise and skilful rulers of the world , improving its beauty at the same ...
... action , and persecute one and foster another , from dislike and regard founded on no- thing but our own caprice . Thus , instead of being , as we ought to be , the wise and skilful rulers of the world , improving its beauty at the same ...
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... action of the weather , there is a continual tendency to flatten the general sur- face of the earth . The process is , no doubt , a slow one , but it is sure ; and there is no part of the world without some traces of its effects . In ...
... action of the weather , there is a continual tendency to flatten the general sur- face of the earth . The process is , no doubt , a slow one , but it is sure ; and there is no part of the world without some traces of its effects . In ...
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... action . The gentle ripple that follows their course , as they wheel and play together , seems to be occasioned rather by their agitating the air than by any action of theirs upon the water , and the glitter of the wing - cases is so ...
... action . The gentle ripple that follows their course , as they wheel and play together , seems to be occasioned rather by their agitating the air than by any action of theirs upon the water , and the glitter of the wing - cases is so ...
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... action of two small webs or membranes , one on each side of the foot , which touch the surface , first in the middle , and then gradually to the outsides , so as to exclude the air ; and as the weight of the fly is con- nected to the ...
... action of two small webs or membranes , one on each side of the foot , which touch the surface , first in the middle , and then gradually to the outsides , so as to exclude the air ; and as the weight of the fly is con- nected to the ...
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Strona 380 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Strona 75 - Here a loosened stone leaped over a ledge; and no sound was heard, so profound was its fall. There, the shingle rattled down the screes, and she hesitated not to follow. Her feet bounded against the huge stone that stopped them, but she felt no pain. Her body was callous as the cliff.
Strona 148 - ... beneath the flowers and leaves of the water-lily; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy...
Strona 72 - Lamond's bairn!' and many hundred feet were in another instant hurrying towards the mountain. Two miles of hill, and dale, and copse, and shingle, and many intersecting brooks lay between; but in an incredibly short time, the foot of the mountain was alive with people. The eyrie was well-known, and both old birds were visible on the rock-ledge.
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Strona 73 - No stop— no stay— she knew not that she drew her breath. Beneath her feet Providence fastened every loose stone, and to her hands strengthened every root. How was she ever to descend? That fear...
Strona 71 - ... huge heaped-up wains, that almost hid from view the horses that drew them along the sward, beginning to get green with second growth, were moving in all directions towards the snug farmyards. Never had the parish seemed before so populous. Jocund was the balmy air with laughter, whistle, and song. But the Tree-gnomons threw the shadow of "one o'clock...
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Strona 74 - She looked round expecting to see an angel, but nothing moved except a rotten branch, that under its own. weight, broke off from the crumbling rock. Her eye, by some secret sympathy...