| Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 páginas
...large cabbage leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so, in the decline of the year, he improves...inclining to the horizon receive a greater share of warmth1, he inclines his shell, by tilting it against the wall, to collect and admit every feeble ray.... | |
| Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 páginas
...large cabbage leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so, in the decline of the year, he improves...inclining to the horizon receive a greater share of warmth1, he inclines his shell, by tilting it against the wall, to collect and admit every feeble ray.... | |
| Popular history - 1843 - 434 páginas
...safety.' He, therefore, spends the sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But, as he...autumnal beams, by getting within the reflection of a fruit wall ; and though he never has read that planes inclining to the horizon receive a greater share... | |
| Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 páginas
...large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus-bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so, in the decline of the year, he improves...autumnal beams, by getting within the reflection of a fruit wall; and, though he never has read that planes inclining to the horizon receive a greater share... | |
| 1843 - 1040 páginas
...large cabbage leaf, or amidst the wavin; forests of an asparagus-bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so, in the decline of the year, he improves...faint autumnal beams, by getting within the reflection ot a fruit-wall ; and, though he never has read that planes inclining to the horizon receive a greater... | |
| 1850 - 602 páginas
...a large cabbage leaf, or amid the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so in the decline of the year he improves...to the horizon receive a greater share of warmth, !;e inclines his shell, by tilting it against the wall, to collect and admit every feeble ray. This... | |
| 1850 - 602 páginas
...a large cabbage leaf, or amid the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so in the decline of the year he improves...planes inclining to the horizon receive a greater tlwre of warmth, be incünes his shell, by tilting it against the wall, to collect and admit every... | |
| 1851 - 640 páginas
...a large cabbage leaf, or amid the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he avoids heat in the summer, so in the decline of the year he improves...autumnal beams, by getting within the reflection of a fruit wall ; and though he never has read that planes inclining to the horizon receive a greater share... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 páginas
...safety.' He therefore spends the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbageleaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he...autumnal beams, by getting within the reflection of a fruit- wall; and, though he never has read that plains inclining to the horizon receive a greater share... | |
| Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 páginas
...safety." He therefore spends the more sultry hours under the umbrella of a large cabbage-leaf, or amidst the waving forests of an asparagus bed. But as he...autumnal beams by getting within the reflection of a fruit wall ; and, though he never has read that planes inclining to the horizon receive a greater share... | |
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