The Journal of a Naturalist ...Carey & Lea, 1831 - 286 pages |
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... beautiful Oak - tree - magnitude of several trees - uncertain in producing acorns - a history of the oak might be written - all its products valuable - Wych elm - its character - uses - magnitude - name - suffers in early frosts - not ...
... beautiful Oak - tree - magnitude of several trees - uncertain in producing acorns - a history of the oak might be written - all its products valuable - Wych elm - its character - uses - magnitude - name - suffers in early frosts - not ...
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... beautiful microscopic object - medicinal properties - leaves punctured by insects - Traveller's joy - grows in limestone soils by preference - uses- pores of the wood in the microscope - Vessels of plants - uninjured by dry seasons ...
... beautiful microscopic object - medicinal properties - leaves punctured by insects - Traveller's joy - grows in limestone soils by preference - uses- pores of the wood in the microscope - Vessels of plants - uninjured by dry seasons ...
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... beautiful and extensive prospect : the broad estuary of the river Severn , the mountains of Glamorgan , Mon- mouth , and Brecon , with their peaceful vales , and cheerful - looking white cottages , form the distant view : beneath it ...
... beautiful and extensive prospect : the broad estuary of the river Severn , the mountains of Glamorgan , Mon- mouth , and Brecon , with their peaceful vales , and cheerful - looking white cottages , form the distant view : beneath it ...
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... beautiful bright red flame ; barytes , which approaches near to strontia , affords a fine green ; nitrates of both , compounded with other matters , are used in theatrical representations . Strontian exists in many places , and ...
... beautiful bright red flame ; barytes , which approaches near to strontia , affords a fine green ; nitrates of both , compounded with other matters , are used in theatrical representations . Strontian exists in many places , and ...
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... beautiful landscape , grateful objects , pleasures received by the eye or the senses , be- come the common property of all who can enjoy them , being in some measure obvious to every one ; but the naturalist must reflect upon hidden ...
... beautiful landscape , grateful objects , pleasures received by the eye or the senses , be- come the common property of all who can enjoy them , being in some measure obvious to every one ; but the naturalist must reflect upon hidden ...
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Page 160 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 7 - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
Page 57 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 290 - Arts, the work will be exceedingly rich. Great attention was given to this in the German work, and the Editors have been anxious to render it, by the necessary additions, as perfect as possible. To gentlemen of the Bar, the work will be peculiarly valuable, as in cases where legal subjects are treated, an account is given of the provisions of Anieri-, can, English, French, Prussian, Austrian, and Civil Law.
Page 129 - ... as it is appointed the earliest of risers, it would commonly be famished. In the hot summer of 1825, many of the young brood of the season perished from want; the mornings were without dew, and consequently few or no worms were to be obtained ; and we found them dead under the trees, having expired on their roostings. It was particularly distressing, for no relief could be- given, to hear the constant clamor and importunity of the young for food.
Page 147 - We observed this summer two common thrushes frequenting the shrubs on the green in our garden. From the slenderness of their forms, and the freshness of their plumage, we pronounced them to be birds of the preceding summer. There was an association and friendship between them that called our attention to their actions ; one of them seemed ailing or feeble from some bodily accident, for, though it hopped about, yet it appeared unable to obtain a sufficiency of food.
Page 31 - 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.
Page 291 - The variety of topics is of course vast, and they are treated in a manner which is at once so full of information and so interesting, that the work, instead of being merely referred to, might be regularly perused with as much pleasure as profit.