 | Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...the fishers call it the Sea Mous. Scolopendra marina nostras. SECT. " But what our eyes have secrie, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is...found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, tome whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...shall insert in his own words, which have been often quoted : — " What our eyes have seen, and our hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small...Lancashire, called the Pile of Foulders, ' wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by ship-wrecks ; also the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...our eyes have feene, and hands have touched, we (ball declare. There is a (mall ifbnd in l.ancaihire, called the pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruifed fhips, fome whereof have been call thither by fliipwracke, ar.d alfo the trunks and bodies... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1820 - 188 pages
...celebrated naturalist, and his account is so curious, that we shall give it in his own words: — " But what our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we...shall declare : There is a small island in Lancashire, (on the western coast of England,) called " The Pile of Flanders," wherein are found broken pieces... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...Shall insert in his own words, which have been often quoted : — ' What our eyes have seen, and our hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small...Lancashire, called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwrecks; also the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...of those parts, which may тегу well accord with troth. " But what our eyes have scene, and bands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile of Foolders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised »hips, some whereof have been cast... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Architecture - 1825 - 342 pages
...read for yourself, if you please, and can read my small hand writing." Harry read as follows : — " 'What our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island — '" Lucy put her hand over the name of the place, and bid Harry read on without knowing where the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1827 - 332 pages
...read for yourself, if you please, and can read my small hand writing." Harry read as follows : — " 'What our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island — '" Lucy put her hand over the name of the place, and bid Harry read on without knowing where the... | |
 | John Stark - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...appearance of the animal. Gerard the botanist, however, thus writes from his own personal observation : " What our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare." On the trunks and branches of old trees cast up by the sea, " is found a certaine spume or froth, that... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...I shall insert in his own words, which have been often quoted:—" What our eyes have seen, and our hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small...Lancashire, called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwrecks ; also the... | |
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But what our eyes have seen and our hands have touched" continues 'the Author, doubtless with full sincerity, " we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised... 
