| Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 Seiten
...from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines. Though I have now travelled the Sussex-downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it. This range, which runs from Chichester eastward... | |
| Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 Seiten
...from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines. Though I have now travelled the Sussex-downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it. This range, which runs from Chichester eastward... | |
| 1900 - 302 Seiten
...AND EXCHANGES. Nature in Download. By WH Hudson. Longmans. Price I0S. 6d. net. " THOUGH I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years,...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and I think I see new beauties each time I traverse it." So wrote Gilbert White, and the present writer... | |
| John M. Dillon - 1908 - 456 Seiten
...writing in 1773, speaks enthusiastically of these downs: Though I have now travelled the Sussex-downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it. This range, which runs from Chichester eastward,... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1909 - 90 Seiten
...Selborne," the good rector says of the range of hills that ran through the parish which was his world, "Though I have travelled the Sussex Downs upwards...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it." The globe-trotter smiles superciliously when... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1909 - 90 Seiten
...Selborne," the good rector says of the range of hills that ran through the parish which was his world, "Though I have travelled the Sussex Downs upwards...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it." The globe-trotter smiles superciliously when... | |
| Robert Thurston Hopkins - 1921 - 280 Seiten
...laboratory of nature. Though he had travelled the Sussex Downs for upwards of thirty years, yet he could still investigate " that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year." Ringmer lies at the base of Mount Caburn. Here the deep shadowy coombes, and the patches of fragrant... | |
| Donald Maxwell - 1924 - 308 Seiten
...White, I think you will agree that I was being rather misled. The italics are mine. " Though I have now travelled the Sussex downs upwards of thirty years,...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and I think I see new beauties in it every time I traverse it." My first impression, therefore, of... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 Seiten
...Natural History </ Selborne 280 The Sussex "Downs '"[""'HOUGH I have now travelled the Sussex-dozens JL upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and I think I see new beauties every time I traverse it. The range, which runs from Cbichester eastward... | |
| 1909 - 872 Seiten
...Selborne, the good rector says of the range of hills that ran through the parish which was his world, " Though I have travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of...majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it." The globe-trotter smiles superciliously when... | |
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