 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well ;" and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha, but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids the heat in summer,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...bird, " ' Much too wire to walk into a well,' and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha, but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...precaution, Though he loves warm weather, he avoids the hot nm ; because his thick shell, when once heated, would, as the poet says of the armour, ' scald with... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1860 - 356 pages
..." Much too wise to walk into a well ; " and has so much discernment as not to fall down an liaha ; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest precaution. safety." He therefore spends the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage leaf, or amidst... | |
 | Mrs. Alfred Gatty - 1861 - 264 pages
...lord, ' Much too wise to walk into a well,' -and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha, but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest precaution." In confirmation of which gift of wisdom the case of the eating Tortoise, before spoken of, may be cited.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 pages
...— Much too wise to walk into a well :" and has so much discernment as not to fall down an ha-ha : but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...precaution. Though he loves warm weather he avoids the hot * Mr. Bell, who possesses the shell of old Timothy, thinks it the Testudina margiiuita, Scluepff. Mr.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 848 pages
...bird, " ' Much too wise to walk into a well,' and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha, but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest precaution. Though ho loves warm weather, he avoids the hot sun ; because his thick shell, when once heated, would, as... | |
 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 pages
...— Much too wise to wulk into a well :" and has so much discernment as not to fall down a ha-ha : but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus-bed. I'itiable seems the condition of this... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well : " and has so much discernment as not to fall down a haha ; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...therefore spends the more sultry hours under the umbrella 1 In the original 4to. this letter ends here, and the " particulars" which follow are given by way... | |
 | 1875 - 702 pages
...Much too Trise to walk into a well ;' and has so much discernment ns not to fnll down a haha ; hut to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...thick shell, when once heated, would, as the poet saj-s of solid armour, 'scald with safety.' He therefore spends the more sultry hours under the umbrella... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...instinct. Yet he is, as Mr. Pope says of his lord, and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest...the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagusbed. But as he avoids heat in the summer,... | |
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BECAUSE we call this creature an abject reptile, we are too apt to undervalue his abilities, and depreciate his powers of instinct. Yet he is, as Mr. Pope says of his lord, " Much too wise to walk into a well... 
