| Thomas Pennant - 1776 - 464 pages
...more innate, than language is in man, and depend entirely upon the mailer under which they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate...which they have frequent opportunities of hearing. * The common hen, when ihe lays, repeats the fame note very often, and concludes with the fixth above,... | |
| 1778 - 630 pages
...more innate than language is in man-, and depend entirely upon the mailer under which they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate...which they have frequent opportunities of hearing. Mod of the experiments I have made on this fubjeit have been made with cock linnets, which were fledged... | |
| 1786 - 508 pages
...above; which iiie held» for a lender urn«. jßirJt bave «et any innate Utas of their peculiar Song. will enable them to imitate the founds which they have frequent opportunities of hearing. Moft of the experiments I have made on this fubjeft iiave been made with cock linnets, which were fledged... | |
| 1792 - 494 pages
...more innate, than language is in man, and depend entirely u^m the mailer under which they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate...which they have frequent opportunities of hearing. Moil of the experiments I have made on this fubjeft have been tried with cock linnets, which were fledged... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...more innate, thin language is in man, and depend entirely upon the mailer under which they arc bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate the founds \vhicn they have frequent opportunities of hearing. • The bird called a Twite by the blrJ-cjv cummonly... | |
| 1801 - 554 pages
...wore innate than language is in man, and depend entirely upon the mailer under which -they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate...which they have frequent opportunities of hearing. Moft of the experiments I have made on this fubjeft have been made with cock linnets, which were fledged... | |
| John Gardiner - 1803 - 626 pages
...more innate, than language is in man ; and depend entirely upon the mafter under which they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate...which they have frequent opportunities of hearing. In confirmation of this aflertion, he relates fome experiments of neftlings, brought up under the tuition... | |
| Thomas Busby - 1811 - 334 pages
...crotches, adagio, or while a pendulum swings four seconds. SON It is observed, that notes in bird* are no more innate than language in man, and that they depend entirely on the master under which they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate... | |
| 1816 - 808 pages
...adagio movement, or whilft a pendulum fwings four féconde. It is affirmed, that the notée of bird« are no more innate than language in man, and that...far as their organs will enable them to imitate the fuunds which they have frequent opportunities of hearing : and their adhering fo Readily, even in 'a... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 384 pages
...four crotchets, adagio, or while a pendulum swings four seconds. It is observed, that notes in birds are no more innate than language in man, and that they depend entirely on the master under which they are bred, as far as their organs will enable them to imitate... | |
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