 | John George Wood - 1855 - Liczba stron: 478
...but the latest and most approved account was that of Gerard, who in 1636 wrote as follows : — " But what our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile 01 Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1857 - Liczba stron: 168
...victim of others, it is impossible to say. His account is so quaint that I here give an extract: — " What our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1861 - Liczba stron: 476
...these tiny shells. This was called the tree-bearing goose. And now let me read this to you, or read it yourself, if you please, and can read my small hand-writing.'...follows : — ' What our eyes have seen, and hands touched, we shall declare. There is a small island — ' Lucy put her hand over the name of the place,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - Liczba stron: 582
...whereon to rest a doubt, thus gives his evidence iu his 'Herbal':— " But what our eyes have seene and hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised... | |
 | Christian Horace B. Alfred Moquin-Tandon - 1869 - Liczba stron: 520
...he only chronicled an existing opinion, we cannot say. He begins his account with the profession, " What our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare;" and then he proceeds to describe the birth of a young bernicle goose from a ship-barnaele. " There... | |
 | 1893 - Liczba stron: 540
...others, and also from the months of people of those parts, which may very well accord with trnth." " But what our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare." He then relates the story, which I give you nearly in his own language, that on an island in Lancashire... | |
 | 1874 - Liczba stron: 800
...of the '; Herbal," a ponderous work of 1,500 pages, from which the cut Fig. 2 is taken. He says : " What our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile of Flounders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships,... | |
 | Half hours - 1875 - Liczba stron: 360
...which has been frequently quoted by modern writers on natural history : — " What our eyes have seene and hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships,... | |
 | William Jones - 1880 - Liczba stron: 778
...the Orcades. " Gerard, author of the "Herbal" (1597), gives a minute account of this prodigy : " But what our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found to be broken pieces of old and bruised... | |
 | Beata Francis - 1881 - Liczba stron: 280
...phenomenon, which he quite believed. He writes in the old spelling, " But what our eyes have seene and hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships,... | |
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Herbal," giving an account of the miraculous origin of the Solan Goose. It runs : " But what our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare. 
