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" I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making a collection of all the birds in this part of North America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakspeare... "
Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics ... - Side 335
1816
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American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the ..., Bind 1

Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 sider
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." TO MR. WM. BARTRAM. March 29, 1804. " Three months have passed away since I had the pleasure of seeing...
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Weaver's Magazine and Literary Companion, Bind 2

1819 - 304 sider
...the ^ hirds in this part of North America. Now, I don't wish you to throw cold water, as Shakespeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear ; I have been so long accustomed to the building of castles, and biain wind mills, that it has become one of my earthly comforts, a sort of rough bone...
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American Quarterly Review, Bind 8

Robert Walsh - 1830 - 650 sider
...most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making a collection of all the birds in this part of plorth America. Now I don't want you to throw cold water,...rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgeries of life." To Mr. B , " I send for your amusement a few attempts at our indigenous birds,...
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American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the ..., Bind 1

Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 sider
...the birds in this part of North America. Now, I don't want you to throw cold water, as Shakespeare says, on this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I...has become one of my earthly comforts, — a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." No plan appears now to have...
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The poetical works of Alexander Wilson: also his miscellaneous prose ...

Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 sider
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...has become one of my earthly comforts ; a sort of rough bone that amuse me when sated with the dull drudgeries of life. TO MR. WILLIAM BERTRAM. 1804....
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Men who have made themselves [by J. McGilchrist].

John McGilchrist - 1860 - 406 sider
...1804, he thus writes to his friend Lawson : " In three weeks I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...has become one of my earthly comforts— a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull O drudgery of life." He was in love with the woods,...
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Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Parts 1-4, Bind 4

William Jardine - 1866 - 458 sider
...mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most earnestly bent on pursuing my plan of making1 a collection of all the birds in this part of North...has become one of my earthly comforts, — a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." No plan appears, at this time,...
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Difficulties Overcome: Scenes in the Life of Alexander Wilson, the Ornithologist

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 200 sider
...this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been fo long accuftomed to the building of airy caftles and brain windmills, that it has become one of my earthly comforts — a sort of rough bone that amuses me when fated with the dull drudgery of life." It feems that this cautious friend...
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Biography of self-taught men [by B. B. Edwards and S. G. Bagley].

Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 sider
...this notion, Quixotic as it may appear. I have been so long accustomed to the building of airy-castles and brain wind-mills, that it has become one of my earthly comforts — a sort of rough bone, that amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life." In the latter part of this year,...
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The Poems and Literary Prose of Alexander Wilson, the American ..., Bind 1

Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 sider
...was more wishful to spend an afternoon with you. In three weeks I shall have a few days' vacancy, and mean to be in town chief part of the time. I am most...amuses me when sated with the dull drudgery of life. t LETTEB XXXVI. Sympathy—' hurry of a crowded school '— ' attempts at some of our indigenous birds...
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