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Excerpt from Love's Meinie: Lectures on Greek and English Birds; Given Before the University of Oxford I publish these lectures at present roughly, in the form in which they were delivered, - (necessarily more brief and broker, than that which may be permitted when time is not limited,) - because I know that some of their hearers wished to obtain them for immediate reference. Ultimately, I hope, they will be completed in an illustrated volume, containing at least six lectures, on the Robin, the Swallow, the Chough, the Lark, the Swan, and the Sea-gull. But months pass by me now, like days; and my work remains only in design. I think it better, therefore, to let the lectures appear separately, with provisional wood-cuts, afterwards to be bettered, or replaced by more finished engravings. The illustrated volume, if ever finished, will cost a guinea; but these separate lectures a shilling, or, if long, one shilling and sixpence each. The guinea's worth will, perhaps, be the cheaper book in the end; but I shall be glad if some of my hearers felt interest enough in the subject to prevent their waiting for it. The modern vulgarization of the word "advertisement" renders. I think, the use of 'advice' as above, in the sense of the French 'avis' (passing into our old English verb 'avise') on the whole, preferable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Love's Meinie
• Subtitle: Lectures on Greek and English Birds; Given Before the University of Oxford (Classic Reprint)
• Author: John Ruskin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• EAN: 9781330472699
• ISBN: 9781330472699
• ID: 09659434
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 395 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 2015

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