This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... my attention, from my early years, has been insensibly directed to the subject, I may, without arrogance, assert, that when . I did consult books, I very seldom found myself either corrected or informed. Considered as objects of mere amusement and amenity to man, how interesting are the birds of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ... my attention, from my early years, has been insensibly directed to the subject, I may, without arrogance, assert, that when . I did consult books, I very seldom found myself either corrected or informed. Considered as objects of mere amusement and amenity to man, how interesting are the birds of the air! How various their appearances, their manners, and habits! How constantly do they present themselves to the eye, and to the ear! While the other wild animals are obliged to seek for safety in concealment, the wings of Birds are to them a strong tower of defence. To that defence are we indebted for the fearlessness with which they sit, displaying their beauteous plumes, and warbling their melodious notes: and what were the woods, without the woodland song, or the fields, uncheered by the aerial notes of the lark! With the descriptions of Birds, I have interspersed delineations of .the scenes which they frequent; and, under that head, I have hazarded some observations on the present mode of laying out grounds. Some opinions which I have shortly, and perhaps crudely, advanced, are copiously and feelingly discussed in a book which every landholder ought to peruse, --I mean, Price's "Essay on the Picturesque." The Birds of Scotland (a title, the promise of which I am sensible is more extensive than the performance) I venture to 'lay before the Public, not as, by any means, a complete work. I offer it not as a treatise, but an essay. It is defective, I am aware, in the general plan, as well as in the different parts. Neither.do I give it as a scientific performance: I have studied not so much to convey knowledge, as to please the imagination, and warm the heart. In The Biblical Pictures, I have endeavoured to describe some of those scenes which...
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