The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... Quadrupeds , Birds , and Fishes , which is to follow . No systematical writer has been more happy than he in reducing Natural History into a form , at once the shortest yet most comprehensive . The subsequent attempts of Mr. Klein and ...
... Quadrupeds , Birds , and Fishes , which is to follow . No systematical writer has been more happy than he in reducing Natural History into a form , at once the shortest yet most comprehensive . The subsequent attempts of Mr. Klein and ...
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... Quadrupeds , have undoubtedly de- served highly of the public , as far as their labors have extended ; but as they have hitherto cultivated but a small part in the wide field of Natural History , a com- prehensive system in this most ...
... Quadrupeds , have undoubtedly de- served highly of the public , as far as their labors have extended ; but as they have hitherto cultivated but a small part in the wide field of Natural History , a com- prehensive system in this most ...
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... quadruped , a bird , a fish , or an insect . Having determined it , for explanation sake , to be an insect , he examines whether it has wings ; if he finds it possessed of these , he is taught to examine whether it has two or four ; if ...
... quadruped , a bird , a fish , or an insect . Having determined it , for explanation sake , to be an insect , he examines whether it has wings ; if he finds it possessed of these , he is taught to examine whether it has two or four ; if ...
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... quadrupeds . This , with great de- ference to such a character , appears to me running into the opposite extreme ; and , as some moderns have of late spent much time , great pains , and some learn- ing , all to very little purpose , in ...
... quadrupeds . This , with great de- ference to such a character , appears to me running into the opposite extreme ; and , as some moderns have of late spent much time , great pains , and some learn- ing , all to very little purpose , in ...
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... quadrupeds . I was therefore left to my reading alone , to make out the History of Birds , Fishes , and Insects , of which the ar rangement was so difficult , and the necessary informa- tion so widely diffused , and so obscurely related ...
... quadrupeds . I was therefore left to my reading alone , to make out the History of Birds , Fishes , and Insects , of which the ar rangement was so difficult , and the necessary informa- tion so widely diffused , and so obscurely related ...
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