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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."
"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."
"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."
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"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."
"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."
"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."
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