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... Vol . I. p . lxxxiii . ) " Barbiton hic paries habebit . " THIS beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays . When I laid down the pen on the 30th of December , 1837 , I thought that I should never take ...
... Vol . I. p . lxxxiii . ) " Barbiton hic paries habebit . " THIS beautiful line from Horace is the last in the last page of the former Essays . When I laid down the pen on the 30th of December , 1837 , I thought that I should never take ...
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... vol . ii . p . 111 . SWAINSON , Wholesale dealer in closet - zoology , was never in the wilds of Guiana , where the book of Wanderings was written . Hence any comment on the above extract were loss of labour and of time . His erroneous ...
... vol . ii . p . 111 . SWAINSON , Wholesale dealer in closet - zoology , was never in the wilds of Guiana , where the book of Wanderings was written . Hence any comment on the above extract were loss of labour and of time . His erroneous ...
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... vol . ii . p . 111. , by Swainson ! Had he ever seen anything of the habits of the cayman , surely he would have paused before he informed his readers in Lardner , " We often met with them [ caymans ] in the same country as Mr. Waterton ...
... vol . ii . p . 111. , by Swainson ! Had he ever seen anything of the habits of the cayman , surely he would have paused before he informed his readers in Lardner , " We often met with them [ caymans ] in the same country as Mr. Waterton ...
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... Vol- taire : I have no reason to complain of Gan- ganelli ; he has left me my dear Jesuits , who are the objects of universal persecution . I will preserve a seed of so precious and uncom- mon a plant , to furnish those who may wish to ...
... Vol- taire : I have no reason to complain of Gan- ganelli ; he has left me my dear Jesuits , who are the objects of universal persecution . I will preserve a seed of so precious and uncom- mon a plant , to furnish those who may wish to ...
Page 194
... had you but called to your recollection the con- days . " See Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopędia , Natural History of Birds ; by William Swainson , Esq . , vol . i . ALAS ! POOR AUDUBON ! tents of one of your former letters to me . 194 APPENDIX .
... had you but called to your recollection the con- days . " See Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopędia , Natural History of Birds ; by William Swainson , Esq . , vol . i . ALAS ! POOR AUDUBON ! tents of one of your former letters to me . 194 APPENDIX .
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