Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 1Charles Knight Charles Knight, 1850 - English literature |
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Page 71
... observed often ; but the true original cause thereof , divine malediction , laid for the sin of man upon these creatures , which God had made for the use of man , this being an article of that saving truth which God hath revealed unto ...
... observed often ; but the true original cause thereof , divine malediction , laid for the sin of man upon these creatures , which God had made for the use of man , this being an article of that saving truth which God hath revealed unto ...
Page 79
... observed that very stormy and rainy weather was approaching . I conclude that these animals , sensible of a current of air approaching from the ocean , retire to the laud to shelter themselves from the storm . Orn . No such thing . The ...
... observed that very stormy and rainy weather was approaching . I conclude that these animals , sensible of a current of air approaching from the ocean , retire to the laud to shelter themselves from the storm . Orn . No such thing . The ...
Page 99
... observation . Not but now and then a straggler is seen much earlier ; and , in particular , when I was a boy Ì observed a swallow for a whole day together , on a sunny warm Shrove Tuesday ; which day could not fall out later than the ...
... observation . Not but now and then a straggler is seen much earlier ; and , in particular , when I was a boy Ì observed a swallow for a whole day together , on a sunny warm Shrove Tuesday ; which day could not fall out later than the ...
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