The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting Productions of Britain and the Surrounding Sea: In the Scenes which They Inhabit, and with Relation to the General Economy of Nature, and the Wisdom and Power of Its Author, Volume 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, 1830 |
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Page 380 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 75 - Here a loosened stone leaped over a ledge; and no sound was heard, so profound was its fall. There, the shingle rattled down the screes, and she hesitated not to follow. Her feet bounded against the huge stone that stopped them, but she felt no pain. Her body was callous as the cliff.
Page 148 - ... beneath the flowers and leaves of the water-lily; and as the season advances, to find all these objects changed for others of the same kind, but better and brighter, till the swallow and the trout contend as it were for the gaudy...
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Page 75 - Her child was bound upon her shoulders — she knew not how or when — but it was safe — and scarcely daring to open her eyes, she slid down the shelving rocks, and found herself on a small piece of firm root-bound soil, with the tops of bushes appearing below. With fingers suddenly strengthened into the power of iron, she swung herself down by brier, and broom, and heather, and dwarf-birch. There, a loosened stone leapt over a ledge and no sound was heard, so profound was its fall.
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| Title | The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting Productions of Britain and the Surrounding Sea: In the Scenes which They Inhabit, and with Relation to the General Economy of Nature, and the Wisdom and Power of Its Author, Volume 1 The British Naturalist, Or, Sketches of the More Interesting Productions of Britain and the Surrounding Sea: In the Scenes which They Inhabit, and with Relation to the General Economy of Nature, and the Wisdom and Power of Its Author, Robert Mudie |
| Author | Robert Mudie |
| Publisher | Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, 1830 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
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