 | Charles Waterton - Birds - 1838 - 438 pages
...current in this part of the country, that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...was always positive on this point; and he maintained p 2 firmly, that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration from Germany to England. Be... | |
 | Charles Waterton - Birds - 1839 - 430 pages
...current in this part of the country, that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...positive on this point ; and he maintained firmly, p 2 that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration from Germany to England. Be this as... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1892 - 1134 pages
..."There is a tradition," he says,1 " that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...emigration from Germany to England." Be this as it may, the brown rat is now so firmly established as to well-nigh defy all attempts at its extermination.... | |
 | Charles Waterton - Birds - 1844 - 468 pages
...current in this part of the country, that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...positive on this point ; and he maintained firmly, p 2 that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration from Germany to England. Be this as... | |
 | H D. Richardson - 1852 - 158 pages
...current in this part of the country, that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...England. Be this as it may, it is certain that the stronger Rat has now punished us severely for more than a century and a quarter. Its rapacity knows... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 640 pages
...these shores. My father, who was of the first order of field naturalists, was always positive upon this point, and he maintained firmly that it did accompany...Hanover in its emigration from Germany to England.' Having thus given the 'little brute' a bad name, he pertinaciously hunts him through the two volumes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1857 - 612 pages
...part of the country (Yorkshire) that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...first order of field naturalists, was always positive upon this point, and he maintained firmly that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1858 - 836 pages
...part of the country (Yorkshire) that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...first order of field naturalists, was always positive upon this point, and he maintained firmly that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - Essays - 1860 - 554 pages
...part of the country (Yorkshire), that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...first order of field naturalists. was always positive upon this point, and he maintained firmly that it did accompany the House of Hanover in its emigration... | |
 | Charles Waterton - Birds - 1861 - 464 pages
...current in this part of the country, that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the...as it may, it is certain that the stranger rat has nowpunished us severely for more than a century and a quarter. Its rapacity knows no bounds, while... | |
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... that it actually came over in the same ship which conveyed the new dynasty to these shores. My father, who was of the first order of field naturalists, was always positive on this point ; and he maintained firmly, that it did accompany the House of... 
