The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 |
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... reason to doubt its truth . The explanation , of course , is simple . The habit of hiding becomes so fixed in the young birds that they 77 adhere to it long after their wings have grown . B 2 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL 15.
... reason to doubt its truth . The explanation , of course , is simple . The habit of hiding becomes so fixed in the young birds that they 77 adhere to it long after their wings have grown . B 2 GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL 15.
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... course to steer , and how many of the little voyagers perish by the way ? Not long ago a neighbour of mine picked up a red- necked grebe , which he found lying upon dry land in a part of the country where this species is quite un- known ...
... course to steer , and how many of the little voyagers perish by the way ? Not long ago a neighbour of mine picked up a red- necked grebe , which he found lying upon dry land in a part of the country where this species is quite un- known ...
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... course o a stream ; the southern base , high up on the Down themselves , meets and rests on the boundaries of othe parishes . Between the two long eastern and western sides is the land , cultivated , grazed , or mown by the occupiers ...
... course o a stream ; the southern base , high up on the Down themselves , meets and rests on the boundaries of othe parishes . Between the two long eastern and western sides is the land , cultivated , grazed , or mown by the occupiers ...
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... course , in Protestant hands . But , in a free chapel , attached to the ancient home of the Eystons , services of the Roman Catholic Church have been held with remarkable con- tinuity . Built between 1253 and 1291 , and dedicated , in a ...
... course , in Protestant hands . But , in a free chapel , attached to the ancient home of the Eystons , services of the Roman Catholic Church have been held with remarkable con- tinuity . Built between 1253 and 1291 , and dedicated , in a ...
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... course . Take , for instance , France and Germany . France has never let go of her rural industries . Apart from her peasant pro- prietors , she employs some three million agricultural workers . Of these , 600,000 resemble our own men ...
... course . Take , for instance , France and Germany . France has never let go of her rural industries . Apart from her peasant pro- prietors , she employs some three million agricultural workers . Of these , 600,000 resemble our own men ...
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