Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology. With an autobiography of the author. 2nd ser.: with a continuation of the autobiography1844 |
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... Vol . I. p . lxxxiii . ) " Barbiton hic paries habebit . " THIS beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays . When I laid down the pen on the 30th of December , 1837 , I thought that I should never take ...
... Vol . I. p . lxxxiii . ) " Barbiton hic paries habebit . " THIS beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays . When I laid down the pen on the 30th of December , 1837 , I thought that I should never take ...
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... Vol . I. p . lxxxiii . ) " Barbiton hic paries habebit . " THIS beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays . When I laid down the pen on the 30th of December , 1837 , I thought that I should never take ...
... Vol . I. p . lxxxiii . ) " Barbiton hic paries habebit . " THIS beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays . When I laid down the pen on the 30th of December , 1837 , I thought that I should never take ...
Side 15
... brought up tame from the nest ; * See a correct description of this bird in the Ornitologia Toscana , vol . i . p . 76. , by Professor Paolo Savi . and in the month of September is sold for a THE LITTLE ITALIAN OWL . 15.
... brought up tame from the nest ; * See a correct description of this bird in the Ornitologia Toscana , vol . i . p . 76. , by Professor Paolo Savi . and in the month of September is sold for a THE LITTLE ITALIAN OWL . 15.
Side 46
... vol . ii . p . 111 . SWAINSON , Wholesale dealer in closet - zoology , was never in the wilds of Guiana , where the book of Wanderings was written . Hence any comment on the above extract were loss of labour and of time . His erroneous ...
... vol . ii . p . 111 . SWAINSON , Wholesale dealer in closet - zoology , was never in the wilds of Guiana , where the book of Wanderings was written . Hence any comment on the above extract were loss of labour and of time . His erroneous ...
Side 58
... vol . ii . p . 111. , by Swainson ! Had he ever seen anything of the habits of the cayman , surely he would have paused before he informed his readers in Lardner , " We often met with them [ caymans ] in the same country as Mr. Waterton ...
... vol . ii . p . 111. , by Swainson ! Had he ever seen anything of the habits of the cayman , surely he would have paused before he informed his readers in Lardner , " We often met with them [ caymans ] in the same country as Mr. Waterton ...
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