The Youth's Book of Nature: Or, The Four Seasons Illustrated: Being Familiar Descriptions of Natural History, Made During Walks in the Country, Volumes 1-2D. Appleton & Company, 1845 - Nature study |
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... spring , to be caught in my garden , for the sake of comparing it with Buffon's description . Even when a fine young pangolin was brought to me , against my wish , from the mountains , I solicited his restoration to his be- loved rocks ...
... spring , to be caught in my garden , for the sake of comparing it with Buffon's description . Even when a fine young pangolin was brought to me , against my wish , from the mountains , I solicited his restoration to his be- loved rocks ...
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... SPRING . WALK I. CONTENTS . THE SEASONS IN DIFFERENT CLIMATES - THIR VARIED CHARMS - HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED - ST . PIERRE'S STRAWBERRY ROOT - NUMBER OF PLANTS - THE PRIMROSE - COWPER'S LINES ON THE SEASONS . EDWARD . Mamma thinks we had ...
... SPRING . WALK I. CONTENTS . THE SEASONS IN DIFFERENT CLIMATES - THIR VARIED CHARMS - HOW THEY ARE PRODUCED - ST . PIERRE'S STRAWBERRY ROOT - NUMBER OF PLANTS - THE PRIMROSE - COWPER'S LINES ON THE SEASONS . EDWARD . Mamma thinks we had ...
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... and ice began to melt about the twenty - third of June ; and that they were quite gone at the close of the month . On the ninth of July , the fields were all green ; by the seventeenth , the plants were at 2 SPRING .
... and ice began to melt about the twenty - third of June ; and that they were quite gone at the close of the month . On the ninth of July , the fields were all green ; by the seventeenth , the plants were at 2 SPRING .
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... SPRING Thy beauty walks , thy tenderness and love . Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense , and every heart is joy . Then comes thy glory in the SUMMER months ...
... SPRING Thy beauty walks , thy tenderness and love . Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense , and every heart is joy . Then comes thy glory in the SUMMER months ...
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... spring . Its warm gales , the lustre of the new- born leaves , the songs of the birds , the whole crea- tion awakening from its wintry slumbers , especially delights me . Spring too perhaps is more pleasing , because it comes after the ...
... spring . Its warm gales , the lustre of the new- born leaves , the songs of the birds , the whole crea- tion awakening from its wintry slumbers , especially delights me . Spring too perhaps is more pleasing , because it comes after the ...
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