 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 344 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings, — fishes and the animals they prey upon,' — and an acquaintance with the signs and tokens of the weather and its changes,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...and its changes, the nature of waters, and of the the music of the bee ; and on the surface of the waters to view the gaudy flies sparkling like animated... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...acquaintance with the signs and tokens of the weather and its change, the nature of waters, and of the atmosphere. As to its poetical relations, it carries us into... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...atmosphere. As to its poetical relations, it carries us iuto the most wild and beautiful scenery of Nature ; amongst the mountain lakes, and the clear and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a con.-i<lerable tribe of created beings, — fishes, and the animals...into the most wild and beautiful scenery of nature; among the mountain lakes, and the clear and lovely streams that gush from the higher ranges of elevated... | |
 | Henry Flowerdew - 1871 - 156 pages
...command of temper. As connected with natural science, 8 it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...tokens of the weather and its changes ; the nature of the waters, and of the atmosphere. As to its poetical relations, it carries us into the most wild and... | |
 | Henry Flowerdew - 1883 - 242 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings — fishes and the animals they prey upon ; and an acquaintance with the signs and tokens of the weather and its changes ; the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1910 - 502 pages
...demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe ot created beings — fishes, and the animals they prey upon — and an acquaintance with the signs...tokens of the weather and its changes, the nature of the waters, and of the atmosphere. As to its poetical relations, it carries us into the most wild and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 638 pages
...and command of temper. As connected with natural science, it may be vaunted as demanding a knowledge of the habits of a considerable tribe of created beings...the animals that they prey upon, and an acquaintance witi the signs and tokens of the weather and its changes, the nature of waters, ana .it the atmosphere.... | |
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... resources and devices, as well as from active pursuit, belongs to this amusement. Then as to its philosophical tendency, it is a pursuit of moral discipline, requiring patience, forbearance, and command of temper. As connected with natural science,... 
