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Our object being rather to furnish the reader with rational and interesting facts, than systematic arrangements, it is not intended to treat the subject of Ornithology scientifically. -B ut at a period when the education of every class of the community is rapidly improving, and when the minds of the rising generation are in a state of advancement, fitting them for that more perfect knowledge, which, in the preparation of elementary books, ought always to be kept in view, it is of importance that even the simplest work should be arranged and founded, in some degree, on scientific principles. We shall therefore commence with a few introductory remarks on those peculiar features in the formation and habits of Birds, by which they are distinguished from other branches of the animal creation; evincing, as they do, that uniform and beautiful adaptation of means to the accomplishment of certain ends, which characterise every branch of the creation; each in its respective perfection, proving beyond contradiction that as the works of the Lord are manifold, so in wisdom hath He made them all. The visible creation, it has been well said, was A dams library. There may be times, places, and occasions in which a page out of a book in that library may impart not only in Itruction to the head, but consolation to the heart. When hat persevering traveller, Mungo Park, was at one period of lis perilous course fainting in the vast wilderness of an African From ornis and logos, two Greek words, signifying the knowledge fbirds.
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- ÉditeurNabu Press
- Date d'édition2012
- ISBN 10 1286228301
- ISBN 13 9781286228302
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages440
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