 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 σελίδες
...consequently it will be slight." To this Goldsmith contented himself by remarking that "the nidification of birds is what is least known in natural " history, though one of the most curious things in it." Bosuxtt, Ui. 290-1. How charming are those portions of the Animated Nature which refer to this division... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 σελίδες
...nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." " The nidification of birds," rejoined Goldsmith, " is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it" While conversation was going ou in this placid, agreeable, and instructive manner, the eteriiiil meddler... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 σελίδες
...therefore "make her nest quickly." To which Goldsmith merely added that the nidification of birds was " what is least known in natural history, " though one of the most curious things in it." But this easy flow of instructive gossip did not satisfy Boswell. He saw a great opportunity, with... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1860 - 756 σελίδες
...do, that toleration should not be tolerated. He says : " Every society has a right to preserve public peace and order, and therefore has a good right to...propagation of opinions which have a dangerous tendency." (Abolition opinions, for example.) " To say the magistrate has this right is using an inadequate word... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 σελίδες
...therefore make her nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." GOLDSMITH. " The nidification e,by his own hand, in 1766—CKOKEH. Is now forgotten and several religious and miscellaneous " W 1 I may lake thli Decatlón for untieing that of which we meet so many instances—Boswell's pervi-rse,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 424 σελίδες
...nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." " The nidification of birds," said Goldsmith, " is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it." While conversation was going on in this placid, agreeable, and instructive manner, the eternal meddler... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 σελίδες
...nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." " The nidification of birds," rejoined Goldsmith, " is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it." While conversation was going on in this placid, agreeable, and instructive manner, the eternal meddler... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 σελίδες
...therefore make her nest quickly, and, consequently, it will be slight." GOLDSMITH : " The nidification of birds is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things in it." TABLE TALK OF DR. JOHNSON. PART IV. Finding him still persevering in his abstinence from wine, I ventured... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1872 - 448 σελίδες
...nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." " The nidification of birds," rejoined Goldsmith, " is what is least known in natural history, though one of the most curious things iq it." While conversation was going on in this placid, agreeable, and instructive manner, the eternal... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 σελίδες
...I introduced the subject of toleration. JOHNBON : . ' Every society has a right to preserve public Boswell tendeney. To say the magistrate has this right, is using an inadequate word ; it is the society for... | |
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Sir, that is because at first she has full time and makes her nest deliberately. In the case you mention she is pressed to lay, and must therefore make her nest quickly, and consequently it will be slight." GOLDSMITH. " The nidification of birds is what... 
