 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - Počet stránok 600
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the rngle kind arc shrill and piercing; and about the season of nidification much diversified. The notes... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - Počet stránok 522
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...been often assured by a curious observer of nature, * See Spectator, vol. vii. No. 512. who long re&ided at Gibraltar, where eagles abound. The notes of... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1831 - Počet stránok 510
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...about the season of nidification much diversified. The notes of our hawks much resemble those of the king of birds. Oicls, have very expressive notes... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - Počet stránok 354
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical ; little is said, but much ig meant and understood. The notes of the eagle kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - Počet stránok 392
...See Spectator, No. 512. kind, is quite mute,* though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and like other ancient modes of speech,...little is said, but much is meant and understood, -jThe notes of the eagle kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - Počet stránok 342
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...piercing, and, about the season of nidification, much di* See Spectator, vol. vii, No. 518. versified, as I have been often assured by a curious observer... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - Počet stránok 424
...no bird, like the fish-kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - Počet stránok 458
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent.* The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1853 - Počet stránok 386
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent.t The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1858 - Počet stránok 798
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and like other ancient modes of speech,...eagle kind are shrill and piercing, and, about the time of nidification, much diversified, as I have been assured by a curious observer of nature, who... | |
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The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical ; little is said, but much is meant and understood. 
