Essex Naturalist: Being the Journal of the Essex Field Club, Bände 11-12

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The Club., 1900
 

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Seite 73 - to promote the permanent preservation, for the benefit of the nation, of lands and tenements (including buildings) of beauty or historic interest ; and as regards lands, to preserve (so far as practicable) their natural aspect, features, and animal and plant life...
Seite 208 - ... of each succeeding age is made broader and more firm. To us the past is a thing to look back upon, not with regret, not as something which has been lost never to be regained, but with content, as something whose influence is with us still, helping us on our further way. With us, indeed, the past points not to itself, but to the future; the golden age is in front of us, not behind us; that which we do know is a lamp whose brightest beams are shed into the unknown before us, showing us how much...
Seite 65 - A Handbook of British Birds, showing the distribution of the Resident and Migratory species in the British Islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants.
Seite 140 - I will requite a part of your courtesies with a bottle of sack, milk, oranges, and sugar; which, all put together, make a drink like nectar; indeed, too good for any but us anglers.
Seite 270 - In April he opens his bill, In May he sings all day, In June he changes his tune, In July away he does fly, In August go he must.
Seite 240 - Saxton from the privy council special facilities ' to be assisted in all places where he shall come for the view of such places to describe certein counties in cartes, being thereunto appointed by her Majestie's bill under her signet.
Seite 208 - Looking back, then, in this last year of the eighteen hundreds, on the century which is drawing to its close, while we may see in the history of scientific inquiry much which, telling the man of science of his shortcomings and his weakness, bids him be humble, we also see much, perhaps more, which gives him hope. Hope is indeed one of the watchwords of science. In the latter-day writings of some who know not science, much may be read which shows that the writer is losing or has lost hope in the future...
Seite 238 - The teacher should as occasion offers take the children out of doors for school walks at the various seasons of the year, and give simple lessons on the spot about animals in the fields and farmyards, about ploughing and sowing, about fruit trees and forest trees, about birds, insects and flowers, and other objects of interest.
Seite 208 - ... Channel between them, in order that they may take counsel together on matters in which they have one interest and a common hope. May we not look upon this brotherly meeting as one of many signs that science, though she works in a silent manner and in ways unseen by many, is steadily making for peace ? Looking back, then, in this last year of the eighteen hundreds, on the century which is drawing to its close, while we may see in the history of scientific inquiry much which, telling the man of...
Seite 240 - ... of that service and that at his departure from any towne or place that he hath taken the view of the said towne do set forth a horseman that can speke both Welshe and Englishe to safe conduct him to the next market Towne, etc.

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