This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...listening with peculiar interest to the debates. It was then that the aged ealderman of Bede's narrative spoke the famous sparrow simile: 'So seems to me the life of man, 0 king, as a sparrow's flight through the hall, when you sit at meat in winter-tide, with the warm fire lighted on the hearth, and the icy rainstorm ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...listening with peculiar interest to the debates. It was then that the aged ealderman of Bede's narrative spoke the famous sparrow simile: 'So seems to me the life of man, 0 king, as a sparrow's flight through the hall, when you sit at meat in winter-tide, with the warm fire lighted on the hearth, and the icy rainstorm battering without. The sparrow flies in at one door, and tarries for a moment in the light and heat of the hearth-fire; 210 then, flying forth through the other, vanishes into the darkness whence it came. So tarries for a moment the life of a man in our sight, but what is before it, or what after it, we do not know. Now, if this new religion tell us certainly of these things, let us receive it.' The hedge-sparrow, popularly known on the female The hedgeside as ' Blue Jenny', from her lovely eggs of fairy a blue, is a wholly misnamed bird: it is no variety or sparrow. relation of the true sparrow race, which it merely 220 resembles in size and markings. It should be known to the public as the hedge-accentor--but the name is not a taking one. It is soft-billed, modest, and almost timid; the common dupe of the cuckoo--which the true sparrow is too alert ever to be; and has a slight gift of song, which it publishes, from the top of a low twig, for local and limited circulation only. Its markings, though like those of passer domesticus on a casual glance, are yet on inspection very different from them. Increase The tree-sparrow, however, is a true sparrow, and, 230 %arrow0e' though smaller and lighter than the house-sparrow, may easily pass for one; and indeed it occasionally mates with the house-sparrow. It is a migrant, coming in numbers on a north-east wind in October; but is not so rare in summer as it, even recently, used to be. Notes Li...
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