The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Variuous Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar |
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... attended to , still he would be one of the greatest bene- factors to his countrymen in general , who would convince them that the richest mine of national wealth lies within six inches of the surface , and who would teach them the most ...
... attended to , still he would be one of the greatest bene- factors to his countrymen in general , who would convince them that the richest mine of national wealth lies within six inches of the surface , and who would teach them the most ...
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... attended the annual election of Fellows at Oriel College , where the gen- tlemen commoners were allowed the use of the common - room after dinner . This liberty they seldom availed themselves of , except on the occasion of Mr. White's ...
... attended the annual election of Fellows at Oriel College , where the gen- tlemen commoners were allowed the use of the common - room after dinner . This liberty they seldom availed themselves of , except on the occasion of Mr. White's ...
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... attend an election . I was immediately packed in a basket , and carried , slung by the servant's side , to their place of abode . As we rode very hard for forty miles , and as I had never been on horseback before , I found myself ...
... attend an election . I was immediately packed in a basket , and carried , slung by the servant's side , to their place of abode . As we rode very hard for forty miles , and as I had never been on horseback before , I found myself ...
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... attended by the stag - hounds , order- a fine addition to our feathered game . The little American partridge , the ortyx borealis of naturalists , has been introduced , and is now plentiful , in some counties in England . - W . J. Red ...
... attended by the stag - hounds , order- a fine addition to our feathered game . The little American partridge , the ortyx borealis of naturalists , has been introduced , and is now plentiful , in some counties in England . - W . J. Red ...
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... attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some workmen , in pulling down the battlements of a church tower early in the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) ...
... attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some workmen , in pulling down the battlements of a church tower early in the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) ...
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