Magazine of Natural History, Հատոր 6John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1833 |
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... reading world , as well as of the augment- ation of our readers and correspondents . The present Volume , among other valuable information , con- tains notices of various new cheap publications on the subject of Natural History ; the ...
... reading world , as well as of the augment- ation of our readers and correspondents . The present Volume , among other valuable information , con- tains notices of various new cheap publications on the subject of Natural History ; the ...
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... reader of poetry , and fancied them marvellous messengers just arrived from the enchanted regions of romance . Von Os . A fitting guest for the tree of our merry friend the Attic bird . - Dov . Ay , either : be it Minerva's , 8 Chit ...
... reader of poetry , and fancied them marvellous messengers just arrived from the enchanted regions of romance . Von Os . A fitting guest for the tree of our merry friend the Attic bird . - Dov . Ay , either : be it Minerva's , 8 Chit ...
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... readers have done the same the feathers on the breasts and necks of sea birds are so closely matted together , and form a covering so smooth and compact , that shots striking in front will not enter , but instantly glance off , without ...
... readers have done the same the feathers on the breasts and necks of sea birds are so closely matted together , and form a covering so smooth and compact , that shots striking in front will not enter , but instantly glance off , without ...
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... readers , is an implement made of close basket or wicker work , about the size and shape of an ordinary de- canter , and used in brew- ing , being placed in the bunghole of the mash- tub , for the purpose of preventing the escape of the ...
... readers , is an implement made of close basket or wicker work , about the size and shape of an ordinary de- canter , and used in brew- ing , being placed in the bunghole of the mash- tub , for the purpose of preventing the escape of the ...
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... readers of a passage in Pliny , which says : " While I contemplated Nature , she wrought in me a persuasion , that I should look upon nothing as incredible that related to her ; " and the additional experience of many centuries seems to ...
... readers of a passage in Pliny , which says : " While I contemplated Nature , she wrought in me a persuasion , that I should look upon nothing as incredible that related to her ; " and the additional experience of many centuries seems to ...
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Էջ 147 - At length did cross an Albatross: Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Էջ 396 - SILENT nymph, with curious eye ! Who, the purple evening, lie On the mountain's lonely van, Beyond the noise of busy man ; Painting fair the form of things, While the yellow linnet sings ; Or the tuneful nightingale Charms the forest with her tale ; Come, with all thy various hues, Come, and aid thy sister Muse...
Էջ 356 - INTRODUCTION TO GEOLOGY. Intended to convey Practical Knowledge of the Science, and comprising the most important recent discoveries ; with explanations of the facts and phenomena which serve to confirm or invalidate various Geological Theories. By ROBERT BAKEWELL.
Էջ 235 - The patriot's virtue and the poet's song, Still, as the tide of ages rolls away, Shall charm the world, unconscious of decay. Yes ! there are hearts, prophetic HOPE may trust, That slumber yet in uncreated dust, Ordain'd to fire th...
Էջ 200 - There shall he love, when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears, To watch the brightening roses of the sky, And muse on Nature with a poet's eye ! — And when the sun's last splendour lights the deep, The woods, and waves, and murmuring winds asleep; When fairy harps th...
Էջ 200 - Hesperian planet hail, And the lone cuckoo sighs along the vale, His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell, Where mouldering piles and forests intervene, Mingling with darker tints the living green ; No circling hills his ravish'd eye to bound, Heaven, Earth, and Ocean, blazing all around.
Էջ 65 - General System of Gardening and Botany; containing a complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known; with their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, Mode of Culture, and their Uses in Medicine and Domestic Economy.
Էջ 142 - ... times the whole of their subsistence. Here, then, if my data be correct, there is the enormous quantity of 468,000 Ibs., or 209 tons, of worms, insects, and their larvae, destroyed by the rooks of a single rookery in one year.
Էջ 160 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.