A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy: Timber trees: fruitsC. Knight, 1830 - 422 sivua |
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... island will eat into the heart of oak , as they do , sooner or later , into most of the domestic and many of the foreign kinds of timber . Important as the oak is now in the arts , there was a period in the history of Britain when it ...
... island will eat into the heart of oak , as they do , sooner or later , into most of the domestic and many of the foreign kinds of timber . Important as the oak is now in the arts , there was a period in the history of Britain when it ...
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... islands towards the north , in which there is now hardly a shrub of any kind , were covered by pine forests . There has been much con- troversy amongst the learned whether the pine was indigenous to England . Cæsar expressly says that ...
... islands towards the north , in which there is now hardly a shrub of any kind , were covered by pine forests . There has been much con- troversy amongst the learned whether the pine was indigenous to England . Cæsar expressly says that ...
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... island either formerly did , or at present does , produce ; as fir , oak , birch , beech , yew , thorn , willow , ash , & c . , the roots of all or most of which stand in the soil in their natural position , as thick as ever they could ...
... island either formerly did , or at present does , produce ; as fir , oak , birch , beech , yew , thorn , willow , ash , & c . , the roots of all or most of which stand in the soil in their natural position , as thick as ever they could ...
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... island of Great Britain , and in many places of Ireland , especially in the central parts , between the Irish Sea and the Shannon , they point out that the soil and climate were once far superior to what the country now , in those ...
... island of Great Britain , and in many places of Ireland , especially in the central parts , between the Irish Sea and the Shannon , they point out that the soil and climate were once far superior to what the country now , in those ...
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... islands of more firm soil in the extent of it , the highest grounds are composed of peat . In many parts of Scotland , too , the bogs occupy the summit levels , and are found with a river flowing from the one extremity to the eastern ...
... islands of more firm soil in the extent of it , the highest grounds are composed of peat . In many parts of Scotland , too , the bogs occupy the summit levels , and are found with a river flowing from the one extremity to the eastern ...
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Sivu 57 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Sivu 286 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Sivu 285 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Sivu 270 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Sivu 258 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Sivu 291 - This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...
Sivu 314 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Sivu 60 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Sivu 240 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Sivu 74 - Then anon the air began to wax clear and the sun to shine fair and bright, the which was right in the Frenchmen's eyes and on the Englishmen's backs. When the Genoese were assembled together, and began to approach, they made a great leap and cry to abash the Englishmen, but they stood still, and stirred not for all that.