See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD See also:

• RICHARD JEFFERIES (1848-1887)

JEFFERIES (1848-1887)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English naturalist and author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 6th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1848, at the farmhouse of Coate about 22 M. from See also:

• SWINDON

Swindon, on the road to See also:

• MARLBOROUGH
• MARLBOROUGH, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• MARLBOROUGH, JOHN CHURCHILL, 1ST DUKE OF (1650-1722)

Marlborough . He was sent to school, first at See also:

• SYDENHAM
• SYDENHAM, CHARLES EDWARD
• SYDENHAM, THOMAS (1624-1689)

Sydenham and then at Swindon, till the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fifteen or so, but his actual See also:

• EDUCATION

education was at the hands of his See also:

• FATHER

father, who gave him his love for Nature and taught him how to observe . For the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of observation, as See also:

• JEFFERIES, RICHARD (1848-1887)

Jefferies, See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White, and H . D . See also:

• THOREAU, HENRY DAVID (1817-1862)

Thoreau have remarked, several gifts are necessary, including the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long sight and See also:

• QUICK

quick sight, two things which do not always go together . To them must be joined trained sight and the knowledge of what to expect . The boy's father first showed him what there was to look for in the hedge, in the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field, in the trees, and in the See also:

• SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky . This See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of training would in many cases be wasted: to one who can under-stand it, the See also:

• BOOK

book of Nature will by-and-by offer pages which are blurred and illegible to the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city-bred lad, and even to the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country lad the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

• READING

reading them must be maintained by See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant practice . To live amid streets or in the working See also:

• WORLD

world destroys it . The observer must live alone and always in the country; he must not worry himself about the ways of the world; he must be always, from See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day to day, watching the See also:

• INFINITE (from Lat. in, not, finis, end or limit; cf. findere, to deave)

infinite changes and See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations of Nature . Perhaps, even when the observer can actually read this book of Nature, his power of articulate speech may prove inadequate for the expression of what he See also:

• SEES

sees . But Jefferies, as a boy, was more than an observer of the See also:

• FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS (1817-1881)

fields; he was bookish, and read all the books that he could See also:

• BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (18o3-1881)

borrow or buy .

And presently, as is See also:

• APT

apt to be the See also:

• FATE

fate of a bookish boy who cannot enter a learned profession, he became a journalist and obtained a See also:

• POST

post on the See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper . He See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed See also:

• LITERARY

literary ambitions, but for a long See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to come was as one beating the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air . He tried local See also:

• HISTORY

history and novels; but his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early novels, which were published at his own See also:

• RISK

risk and expense, were, deservedly, failures . In 1872, however, he published a remarkable See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter in The Times, on " The See also:

• WILTSHIRE [WILTS]

Wiltshire Labourer," full of See also:

• ORIGINAL

original ideas and of facts new to most readers . This was in reality the turning-point in his career . In 1893, after more false starts, Jefferies returned to his true field of See also:

• WORK

work, the See also:

• LIFE

life of the country, and began to write for See also:

• FRASER
• FRASER, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1819– )
• FRASER, JAMES (1818-1885)
• FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783--1856)
• FRASER, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Fraser's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine on " Farming and Farmers." He had now found himself . The See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his history is that of continual advance, from See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close observation becoming daily more and more close, to that intimate communion with Nature with which his later pages are filled . The developments of the later See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period are throughout touched with the See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy that belongs to See also:

• ILL

ill-See also:

• HEALTH

health . For, though in his See also:

• PROSE

prose poem called " The See also:

• PAGEANT

Pageant of Summer " the writer seems absolutely revelling in the strength of manhood that be-longs to that pageant, yet, in the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

Story of My See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

Heart, written about the same time, we detect the mind that is continually turned to See also:

• DEATH

death . He died at See also:

• GORING, GEORGE GORING, LORD (1608-1657)

Goring, worn out with many ailments, on the 14th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1887 . The best-known books of See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Jefferies are: The Gamekeeper at See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

Home (1878); The Story of My Heart ('883); Life of the Fields (1884), containing the best paper he ever wrote, " The Pageant of Summer"; See also:

• AMARYLLIS (the name of a girl in classical pastoral poetry)

Amaryllis at the See also:

• FAIR

Fair (1884), in which may be found the portraits of his own See also:

• PEOPLE

people; and The Open Air . He stands among the scanty See also:

• COMPANY

company of men who address a small See also:

• AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience, for whom he read aloud these pages of Nature spoken of above, which only he, and the few like unto him, can decipher .

See See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

Walter See also:

• BESANT, SIR WALTER (1836-1901)

Besant, Eulogy of Richard Jefferies ('888); H . S . See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

Salt, Richard Jefferies: a Study (1894); See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas, Richard Jefferies, his Life and Work (1909) . (W .