Gleanings in Natural History: Third and Last Series. To which are Added Notices of Some of the Royal Parks and Residences, Volume 2 |
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... remarkable that she was perfectly familiar with the men into whose shop she had intruded , and flew in and out of it without fear . If , by chance , a stranger , or any other of the persons employed in the same factory , entered the ...
... remarkable that she was perfectly familiar with the men into whose shop she had intruded , and flew in and out of it without fear . If , by chance , a stranger , or any other of the persons employed in the same factory , entered the ...
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... remarkable . It affords another proof that we do not give sufficient credit to the inferior animals ( as they are called ) for intelligence , and I was going to add , for reflection . I will endeavour to prove this more fully by the ...
... remarkable . It affords another proof that we do not give sufficient credit to the inferior animals ( as they are called ) for intelligence , and I was going to add , for reflection . I will endeavour to prove this more fully by the ...
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... remarkable to say of a favourite dog , and the more we examine the character of these noble animals , the more reason shall we have to admire their courage , their fidelity , their sense , and almost their reason . The anecdotes which I ...
... remarkable to say of a favourite dog , and the more we examine the character of these noble animals , the more reason shall we have to admire their courage , their fidelity , their sense , and almost their reason . The anecdotes which I ...
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... thus guarding his drunken master , and he had no doubt that he has often saved him from drowning . Another farmer of the same place has a dog remarkable for his sagacity . If he accidentally or purposely 32 THE SAGACITY OF DOGS .
... thus guarding his drunken master , and he had no doubt that he has often saved him from drowning . Another farmer of the same place has a dog remarkable for his sagacity . If he accidentally or purposely 32 THE SAGACITY OF DOGS .
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... remarkable for his sagacity . If he accidentally or purposely leaves his gloves , stick , or handker- chief on any part of his farm during his morning's walk , and upon his return home , indicates his loss by certain signs to his dog ...
... remarkable for his sagacity . If he accidentally or purposely leaves his gloves , stick , or handker- chief on any part of his farm during his morning's walk , and upon his return home , indicates his loss by certain signs to his dog ...
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Page 250 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 102 - The wild brook babbling down the mountain side; The lowing herd; the sheepfold's simple bell; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley; echoing far and wide The clamorous horn along the cliffs above; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide; The hum of bees, the linnet's lay of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Page 249 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 104 - What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Page 291 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ! Not, chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
Page 57 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Page 296 - Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain...
Page 128 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 165 - Behold ! and look away your low despair — See the light tenants of the barren air : To them, nor stores, nor granaries belong ; Nought, but the woodland, and the pleasing song ; Yet, your kind heav'nly Father bends his eye On the least wing that flits along the sky.
Page 48 - To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay...