The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Bände 9-10Simpkin & Marshall, 1830 |
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... young are so different as to have been formerly consi- dered a distinct species , having all the upper parts dusky , mottled and barred with rufous , and more or less tipped with dull white . They vary considerably among each other when ...
... young are so different as to have been formerly consi- dered a distinct species , having all the upper parts dusky , mottled and barred with rufous , and more or less tipped with dull white . They vary considerably among each other when ...
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... young of the preceding year when they return in spring , one or more of their primary quill - feathers , and of the greater coverts impending them , being then commonly still unchanged . I mention these particulars because it has been ...
... young of the preceding year when they return in spring , one or more of their primary quill - feathers , and of the greater coverts impending them , being then commonly still unchanged . I mention these particulars because it has been ...
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... young remain till September , at which time they leave the country in small flocks . Some of the adult birds , also , both arrive and depart in flocks , but others migrate singly . The truth is , that many of the young are not even ...
... young remain till September , at which time they leave the country in small flocks . Some of the adult birds , also , both arrive and depart in flocks , but others migrate singly . The truth is , that many of the young are not even ...
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... young is an un- pleasant shrill twitter , at once recognizable , and which is very apt to betray the place of concealment . The Cuckoo's food consists principally of insects , chiefly , however , the larger caterpillars , both smooth ...
... young is an un- pleasant shrill twitter , at once recognizable , and which is very apt to betray the place of concealment . The Cuckoo's food consists principally of insects , chiefly , however , the larger caterpillars , both smooth ...
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... young charge with that , although she herself kept to the hempseed , & c . , to which she had been accustomed . " Dr. Jen- ner , however , found in the stomachs of some young Cuckoos that had been nurtured by seed - eating birds the ...
... young charge with that , although she herself kept to the hempseed , & c . , to which she had been accustomed . " Dr. Jen- ner , however , found in the stomachs of some young Cuckoos that had been nurtured by seed - eating birds the ...
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Seite 363 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Seite 386 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 327 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits...
Seite 191 - We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Seite 418 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Seite 109 - If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which taken asunder seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than hydra...
Seite 134 - And for als moche as it is longe tyme passed, that ther was no generalle Passage ne Vyage over the See ; and many Men desiren for to here speke of the holy Lond, and han thereof gret Solace and Comfort...
Seite 19 - I saw ,two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape...
Seite 404 - He had studied the matter of the mint, with the exchange, and value of money ; so that he understood it well, as appears by his Journal. He also understood fortification, and designed well. He knew all the harbours and ports, both of his own dominions, and of France and Scotland ; and how much water they had, and what was the way of coming in to them.
Seite 342 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.