The sailors sometimes catch these birds, by fastening n fresh herring on a floating plank, against which the gannet’s neck is broken, when furiously pouncing on his prey.
With regard to the swarms of solan geese, which breed on the islands near North Britain, and the manner by which the fowler may dis¬tinguish their alarm, I [...]
If your object is to get a great deal of game on the same beat, provided you have it to younelf ‘, do not go out above three days in a week. By so doing you will kill at least twice as much as by following the birds without intermission. Many people, who wish to [...]
This is the foundation on which they principally rest, when they wish to deny us all claim to the Church, and to arrogate it to themselves; that they retain the head, on which the unity of the Church depends, and without which it must be torn asunder and crumble to pieces. For their notion is, [...]
Picturesque theory and practice had moved on, as the use made of Humphry Rcpton in Mansfield Park might remind us. However, the key passage in Pride and Prejudice harks back to an earlier phase. This occurs when Elizabeth first hears of rhc planned trip to be undertaken by the Gardiners (vol. 2, ch, 4): at [...]
It might have been half an hour before each individual, including even the women and children, was in his place. The delay had been created by the grave preparations that were deemed necessary to so solemn and unusual a con¬ference. But when the sun was seen climbing above the tops of that mountain, against whose [...]
As he approached the buildings, his steps became more deliberate, and his vigilant eye suffered no sign, whether friendly or hostile, to escape him. A neglected hut was a little in advance of the others, Mid appeared as if it had been deserted when half completed — most probably on account of failing in some [...]
At his feet lay a large Siberian wolf-dog in a profound slumber, and at the back of his chair hung a cloak and a casket; whilst on the table beside him was his hat and sword, which also bore the dusty relics of a recent journey. The entrance of Buckingham and the porter seemed unheeded [...]
MACQUARIE HARBOUR is a large bay on the western coast of the island, extending inland in a south-west¬erly direction about twenty miles to where Gordon river debouchos, and diverging right and left into two extensive bays or creeks. The settlement is formed at Sarah’s island, a small island within the harbour, whence every morning the [...]
Emily looked up from arranging sora laces, with an ex¬pression of surprise, ass he replied :
i4 Did you not hear him talk of those poems, and attempt to point out the beauties of several works ? I thought every¬thing he uttered was referred to taste, and that not a very natural one; at least,” she [...]
If I lament any thing, it is that I have been already too much taken up with it; but I have made the sacrifice, and trust that I shall be enabled henceforward to maintain that equanimity and deadness to the world which the Christian hfe requires. I would not be unthankful for the many temporal [...]
