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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Sivu 72
... sweet apple , threescore pence . " A sour apple , thirty pence . " A thorn - tree , seven pence halfpenny . Every tree after that , fourpence . " By a statute made in the 5th year of Edward IV . , every Englishman , and Irishman ...
... sweet apple , threescore pence . " A sour apple , thirty pence . " A thorn - tree , seven pence halfpenny . Every tree after that , fourpence . " By a statute made in the 5th year of Edward IV . , every Englishman , and Irishman ...
Sivu 85
... sweet , and without any of the pungent bitterness of turpentine . The inner bark of the spruce has these qualities , though in an inferior degree ; but the young shoots of it are bitter , astringent , and disagreeable . The inhabitants ...
... sweet , and without any of the pungent bitterness of turpentine . The inner bark of the spruce has these qualities , though in an inferior degree ; but the young shoots of it are bitter , astringent , and disagreeable . The inhabitants ...
Sivu 117
... sweet , it attracts num- bers of insects . At certain seasons , the wild bees and wasps may be seen about it in crowds ; and if the timber be placed so that insects are allowed to settle upon it , it is speedily attacked by the. Great ...
... sweet , it attracts num- bers of insects . At certain seasons , the wild bees and wasps may be seen about it in crowds ; and if the timber be placed so that insects are allowed to settle upon it , it is speedily attacked by the. Great ...
Sivu 145
... sweet , but small - not larger , in general , than a common pea . It is cultivated in Japan for the manufacture of paper ; and from this circumstance it gets its spe- cific name . For this purpose it is raised in beds , as osiers are ...
... sweet , but small - not larger , in general , than a common pea . It is cultivated in Japan for the manufacture of paper ; and from this circumstance it gets its spe- cific name . For this purpose it is raised in beds , as osiers are ...
Sivu 220
... sweet con- firmation of the pleasure Nature seems to take in superadding an elegance of form to most of her works , wherever you find them . How poor and bungling are all the imitations of Art ! When I have the plea- sure of seeing you ...
... sweet con- firmation of the pleasure Nature seems to take in superadding an elegance of form to most of her works , wherever you find them . How poor and bungling are all the imitations of Art ! When I have the plea- sure of seeing you ...
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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.