 | James Lawson Drummond - Animals - 1831 - 508 pages
...Lancashire Tree Geese: but the other that do fall upon the land perish, and come to nothing. Thus much by the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth." " But what our eies have scene, and hands have touched, we... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Mollusks - 1835 - 234 pages
...Lancashire, Tree Geese ; but the others that do falT upon the hind perish and come to nothing. Thus much from the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth. *' But what our eyes have scene and hands have touched we shall... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 794 pages
...tree geese ; but the other that do come fall upon the land, perish, and come to nothing. Thus much from the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth." He then subjoins the following account of what he solemnly... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Fishes - 1844 - 600 pages
...the extraordinary supposition, that from a Barnacle is produced a Bird ; especially when the Author tells us that so far he is satisfied by his own observation,...which he learned " from the writings of others, and ilso from the mouths of people of those parts," is by no means so discordant with truth, as they certainly... | |
 | David Landsborough - 1852 - 206 pages
...falling into the water, do become fowls, which we call barnacles." This he records as information derived from the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which he says may very well accord with truth ; adding, in the simplicity of his heart, and with no... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Animals - 1857 - 608 pages
...the extraordinary supposition, that from a Barnacle is produced a Bird ; especially when the Author tells us that so far he is satisfied by his own observation,...part of his story, setting forth that these Barnacles grove upon trees, which he learned " from the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 622 pages
...Lancashire tree Geese; but the other thatr'do fall upon the land, perish and come to nothing : thus much by the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth. 'But what our eies have seene, and hands have touched, we shall... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1864 - 652 pages
...Geese; but the other that do fall upon the land, perish and come to nothing : thus much by the Avritings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth. ' But what our eies have scene, and hands have touched, we shall... | |
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... we call Barnakles, in the north of England Brant Geese, and in Lancashire tree Geese ; but the other that do fall upon the land, perish and come to nothing : thus much by the writings of others, and also from the mouths of people of those parts, which... 
