 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...by robbing the eaglets of food — eagles killed a peasant who had robbed their nests — there is a law in the Orkney islands, which entitles any person...house in the parish in which the plunderer is killed — the nest of the eagle is usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock — description... | |
 | 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...plunderers in the Orkney islands, that there is a law there which entitles a person who destroys one to a hen out of every house in the parish in which it is killed. Their eager quest of animal food, however, renders them extremely useful to »s. The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...nest, by robbing the eaglets of food: eagles killed a peasant who had robbed their nests: there .is a law in the Orkney Islands, which entitles any person...house in the parish in which the plunderer is killed: the nest of the eagle is usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock: description of one... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...talons. In order to extirpate these pernicious birds, there is a- law in the Orkney islands \vhicb entitles any person that kills an eagle to a hen out...house in the parish in which the plunderer is killed The nest of the eagle is usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock, and often shielded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...dispatched him with their beaks and talons. In order to extirpate these pernicious birds, there is a law in the Orkney Islands, which entitles any person...house in the parish in which the plunderer is killed. The nest of the eagle is usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock, and often shielded... | |
 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...period to its sufferings. Camdeu mentions a law in the Orkney isles which entitles every person who kills an eagle to a hen out of every house in the parish where the feat was performed. STANZAS. WHERE are they now, the beautiful, who stood our coucb beside.... | |
 | 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...farmers are sure to lose abundance of lambs yearly ; not to mention hares, partridges, grouse, ifcc. Smith, in his ' History of Kerry,' relates that a...what we were talking about ; but as Crawford finished bis comments on the eagle, he threw down his cigar, and burst, with clear intonation, into the following... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...dispatched him with their beaks and talons. In order to extirpate these pernicious birds, there is a law in the Orkney Islands, which entitles any person...house in the parish in which the plunderer is killed. The nest of the Eagle is usually built in the most inaccessible cliff of the rock, and often shielded... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...their nests ; and in the Orkneys there is a law which entitles any person killing one of these birds, to a hen out of every house in the parish in which it is killed. They are remarkable for their longevity, and abstinence from food. Mr. Pennant mentions... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...which entitles any person quent in the mountainous parts of 1 reland and killing one of these birds, to a hen out of every house in the parish in which it is killed. They are remarkable for their longevity, and It breeds in the most inaccessible rocks,... | |
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... their beaks and talons. In order to extirpate these pernicious birds, there is a law in the Orkney Islands, which entitles any person that kills an Eagle to a hen out of every house in the parish in which the plunderer is killed. 
