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GLIMPSES OF NATURE , AND OBJECTS OF INTEREST DESCRIBED , DURING A VISIT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT . DESIGNED TO ASSIST AND ENCOURAGE YOUNG PERSONS IN FORMING HABITS OF OBSERVATION , BY MRS . LOU DO N. AUTHOR OF BOTANY FOR LADIES , " ETC.
GLIMPSES OF NATURE , AND OBJECTS OF INTEREST DESCRIBED , DURING A VISIT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT . DESIGNED TO ASSIST AND ENCOURAGE YOUNG PERSONS IN FORMING HABITS OF OBSERVATION , BY MRS . LOU DO N. AUTHOR OF BOTANY FOR LADIES , " ETC.
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Page 216 - Glimpses of Nature ; And Objects of Interest described during a Visit to the Isle of Wight. Designed to assist and encourage Young Persons in forming habits of observation. By Mrs. LOUDON. Second Edition, enlarged. With Forty-one Illustrations. 3s. 6d. cloth. "We could not recommend a more valuable little volume. It is full of information, conveyed in the most agreeable manner."— Literary Gazette.
Page 123 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 122 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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| Title | Glimpses of nature, and objects of interest described, during a visit to the Isle of Wight |
| Author | Jane Loudon |
| Publisher | Grant and Griffith, 1844 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2006 |
| Length | 217 pages |
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