Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

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Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club., 1874
 

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Seite 95 - So very narrowly he caused it to be " traced out, that there was not a single hide, nor one virgate of land, nor even, " it is shame to tell. though it seemed to him no shame to do, an ox, nor a cow, " nor a swine was left, that was not set down.
Seite 95 - After this the king had a great council, and very deep speech with his 'witan' about this land, how it was peopled, or by what men; then sent his men over all England, into every shire, and caused to be ascertained how many hundred hides were in the shire, or what land the king himself had, and cattle within the land, or what dues he ought to have, in twelve months, from the shire.
Seite 108 - Thou art in small things great, not small in any; Thy even praise can neither rise nor fall; Thou art in all things one, in each thing many; For thou art infinite in one and all.
Seite 87 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood, And every bosky 1 bourn from side to side...
Seite 34 - ... figures and descriptions of all the important additions made to the Fossil Flora of...
Seite 27 - The family of Hanbury, to whom the town owes its consequence and celebrity, have long resided at Pontypool Park in the vicinity. Their ancestors were formerly seated at Hanbury Hall, in Worcestershire, from which place they derived their name, according to the red book of the bishopric of Worcester. Roger de Hanbury was born there in 1 125, and his descendant Galfridus resided there in the middle of the sixteenth century.
Seite 23 - ... place them over a brisk fire, and when the butter is melted, squeeze in a little lemon juice, give a few turns, and then add salt, pepper, and a little grated nutmeg. Cook slowly for an hour, adding at intervals small quantities of beef gravy or jelly, broth. When done thicken with yolks of eggs.
Seite 95 - ... about this land, how it was peopled, or by what men; then sent his men over all England, into every shire, and caused to be ascertained how many hundred hides were in the shire, or what land the king himself had, and cattle within the land, or what dues he ought to have, in twelve months, from the shire. Also he caused to be written how much land his archbishops had, and his suffragan bishops, and his abbots, and his earls; and - though I...
Seite 32 - Murchison estimates to be 8,000 to 10,000 feet thick ; and he writes, "the grandest exhibitions of the old red sandstone in England and Wales appear in the escarpments of the Black Mountain of Herefordshire, and in those of the loftiest mountains of South Wales, the Fans of Brecon and Caermarthen, the one 2860, the other 2590 feet above the sea. In no other tract of the world which I have visited is there seen such a mass of red rocks so clearly intercalated between the Silurian and the carboniferous...
Seite 126 - Mushroomes ; whereof some are very venomous and .full of poison, others not so noisome, and neither of them very wholesome meat." And again — " Galen affirms that they are all very cold and moist, and therefore do approach unto a venomous and murtherous facultie, and ingender a clammy, pituitous, and cold nutriment, if they be eaten.

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