American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with Plates, Engraved and Coloured from Original Drawings Taken from Nature, כרך 1Collins, 1828 "The second full edition of Wilson's work, with plates in their most desirable form. This is the most important work on American ornithology before Audubon."--William Reece Company. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 45
עמוד xc
... animals ; when he hears them behind him , he wheels round , and attacks them , often seizing them by the snout . They generally retreat , and he pursues his route again , serving every one that attacks him in the same manner . He ...
... animals ; when he hears them behind him , he wheels round , and attacks them , often seizing them by the snout . They generally retreat , and he pursues his route again , serving every one that attacks him in the same manner . He ...
עמוד cxiii
... animal of the ox kind , one of whose horns , of a prodigious size , was discovered here some years ago , and is in the possession of Mr. Peale . They make here about one thou- sand bushels weekly , which sells at one dollar and seventy ...
... animal of the ox kind , one of whose horns , of a prodigious size , was discovered here some years ago , and is in the possession of Mr. Peale . They make here about one thou- sand bushels weekly , which sells at one dollar and seventy ...
עמוד cxv
... animal call- ed the mammoth , than has yet been found , will be procured . I laid the strongest injunctions on the manager to be on the look out , and to preserve every thing ; I also left a letter for Mr. Colquhoun to the same purport ...
... animal call- ed the mammoth , than has yet been found , will be procured . I laid the strongest injunctions on the manager to be on the look out , and to preserve every thing ; I also left a letter for Mr. Colquhoun to the same purport ...
עמוד cxxiii
... animal , with a fury and celerity incomprehensible by you folks on the other side of the Alleghany . They are there fas- tened to the posts on the sides of the streets , and around the public square , where hundreds of them may be seen ...
... animal , with a fury and celerity incomprehensible by you folks on the other side of the Alleghany . They are there fas- tened to the posts on the sides of the streets , and around the public square , where hundreds of them may be seen ...
עמוד clxxxiv
... ascertained . " The wonderful activity displayed by these birds , forms a striking contrast to the slow habits of most other animals . It may be fairly questioned whether among the whole feathered tribes clxxxiv LIFE OF WILSON .
... ascertained . " The wonderful activity displayed by these birds , forms a striking contrast to the slow habits of most other animals . It may be fairly questioned whether among the whole feathered tribes clxxxiv LIFE OF WILSON .
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 155 - My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, and fitly set.
עמוד cxci - The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
עמוד lxxxi - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
עמוד clxxxix - He many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that perhaps are not within miles of him, but whose notes he exactly imitates. Even birds themselves are frequently imposed on by this admirable mimic, and are decoyed by the fancied calls of their mates ; or dive, with precipitation, into the depths of thickets, at the scream of what they suppose to be the sparrow-hawk.
עמוד clxxvi - There is in constancy and stability a general and lasting advantage, which will always overbalance the slow improvements of gradual correction.
עמוד 126 - O ! sufficient to have alarmed a whole garrison. He has other nocturnal solos, no less melodious, one of which very strikingly resembles the halfsuppressed screams of a person suffocating, or throttled, and cannot fail of being exceedingly entertaining to a lonely benighted traveller, in the midst of an Indian wilderness...
עמוד clxxxviii - Mr Bartram has beautifully expressed it, " He bounds aloft with the celerity of an arrow, as if to recover or recall his very soul, expired in the last elevated strain...
עמוד 38 - This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful of his tribe in this part of the world, and the adopted emblem of our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from a very high northern latitude to the borders of the torrid zone, but chiefly in the vicinity of the sea and along the shores and cliffs of our lakes and large rivers.
עמוד 157 - Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians.