[Classifier4j-devel] SIR RICHARD ST

[Pezzuto F. <les...@co...>]

In the deepest tranquillity. People stare; the only expression. The moment anything is declared, one shall not perceive the novelty of the reign. A nation without parties is soon a nation without curiosity. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 42: From the "Anecdotes

of Painting in England."] [Footnote 43: Letter dated
"Strawberry Hill, August 3, 1775."] [Footnote 44: Letter to Sir Horace Mann, dated "Arlington Street, October 28, 1760."] GILBERT WHITE

Born in 1720, died in 1793; educated at Oxford and became
a fellow of Oriel; later made curate at Selborne; his "Natural History of Selborne," published in 1789. THE CHIMNEY-SWALLOW[45]
The house-swallow, or chimney-swallow,

is undoubtedly the first comer of all the British _hirundines_; and appears in general on or about the 13th of April, as I have
remarked from many years' observation. Not but now and then a straggler is seen much earlier: and in particular,
when I was a boy I observed a swallow for a whole day together
on a sunny warm Shrove Tuesday; which day could not fall out later than the middle of March, and often happened early in February. It is worth remarking that these birds
are seen first about lakes and mill-ponds; and it

is also very particular, that if these early visitors happen to

find frost and snow, as was the case in the two dreadful springs of
1770 and 1771, they immediately withdraw for a time. A circumstance this, much more in favor