Rural Sports, 3. kötetLongman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1812 |
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1. oldal
... wings expanded and motionless . The Kestrel , or Wind - hover , often hangs in the Air in one place , all the while briskly agitating its Wings . Hen - harriers fly slowly over heaths or fields of Corn . Owls move in a buoyant manner as ...
... wings expanded and motionless . The Kestrel , or Wind - hover , often hangs in the Air in one place , all the while briskly agitating its Wings . Hen - harriers fly slowly over heaths or fields of Corn . Owls move in a buoyant manner as ...
2. oldal
... Wings , and make no Dispatch . Herons seem incumbered with too much Sail for their light Bodies , but , as they sometimes have large Fishes to carry , their vast hollow Wings are useful . Pigeons , particularly the Variety called ...
... Wings , and make no Dispatch . Herons seem incumbered with too much Sail for their light Bodies , but , as they sometimes have large Fishes to carry , their vast hollow Wings are useful . Pigeons , particularly the Variety called ...
3. oldal
... wings its flight in Air , and eludes the Force it cannot resist . Birds ( it is not here intended to discriminate all their Varieties ) may be chiefly distinguished , like Quadrupeds , into granivorous and carnivorous : the former ...
... wings its flight in Air , and eludes the Force it cannot resist . Birds ( it is not here intended to discriminate all their Varieties ) may be chiefly distinguished , like Quadrupeds , into granivorous and carnivorous : the former ...
4. oldal
... Wings , are found to contain a great quan- tity of air ; the general diffusion of air through their bodies , at the same time that it sustains them when they continue long on the wing , prevents their respiration from being impeded by ...
... Wings , are found to contain a great quan- tity of air ; the general diffusion of air through their bodies , at the same time that it sustains them when they continue long on the wing , prevents their respiration from being impeded by ...
7. oldal
... Wing with the same Speed for a considerable length of time . Suppose a Bird to fly half a Mile in a Minute for twenty ... Wings , but in a principal degree , by the Tail . And herein we meet with a circumstance not a little remarkable ...
... Wing with the same Speed for a considerable length of time . Suppose a Bird to fly half a Mile in a Minute for twenty ... Wings , but in a principal degree , by the Tail . And herein we meet with a circumstance not a little remarkable ...
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Animal appear ash-colour Barrel belly bill Birds Bittern breast breed Brimstone Brood brown Bustard Cannon Charge Cock colour common Country covered Covey Cross-bow Decoys distance Dotterel Ducks dusky Eggs eight England feathers feed feet Female Fens Fieldfares fire Flesh flight flocks four frequently Game Gamekeeper Geese Greek Fire grey ground Grous Gunpowder half Hares hatched head hundred inches Jack Snipe JOSEPH MANTON killed kind Lapwing legs length Lord Male Manor marked moulting Musquet neck Nest never Night ounces pale Partridges person Pheasant piece Pigeons Plumage Poachers Pointer pounds Powder Ptarmigan Quadrupeds Quails quantity quills Rifles Rooks Ruffs Saltpetre says Season seen Setter shew shillings Shooter shooting shot side Snipes soon Spaniels Species Sportsman spot Spring Swan tail taken tion Trees tridges twelve Water Wild Fowl Wings Winter Wood Woodcock young
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5. oldal - tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to chuse their food? Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand ? Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
12. oldal - ... of human creatures, as imitating the language of different animals. Thus, for instance, the affinity between chatterers and monkeys, and praters and parrots, is too obvious not to occur at once : grunters and growlers may be justly compared to hogs : snarlers are curs...
2. oldal - ... gestures as to appear like a wounded and dying bird; the kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings as it were swim along, while misselthrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations like a butterfly. Most of the...
120. oldal - ... commit the offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour...
393. oldal - In the centre of this grove there stood an oak, which, though shapely and tall on the whole, bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. On this a pair of ravens had fixed their residence for such a series of years, that the oak was distinguished by the title of the Raven Tree.
17. oldal - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
12. oldal - However this may be, we may consider those whose tongues hardly seem to be under the influence of reason, and do not keep up the proper conversation of human creatures, as imitating the language of different animals. Thus, for instance, the affinity between Chatterers and Monkeys, and Praters...
394. oldal - February) when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest ; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the ground.
18. oldal - To view the structure of this little work, A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without. No tool had he that wrought, no knife to cut, No nail to fix, no bodkin to insert, No glue to join; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finish'd ! What nice hand, With ev'ry implement and means of art, And twenty years apprenticeship to boot, Could make me such another?
6. oldal - One in their nature, which are two in ours; And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.