History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities; Natural History; and Relation to Art, Science, and Commerce, Volym 1Henry Colburn and Company, 1822 - 430 sidor |
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... earth and charm all human eyes . " COWPER . Ray says , " No knowledge can be more pleasant to the soul than Natural History : none so satisfying , or that doth so feed the mind . The treasures of Nature are inex- haustible : there is ...
... earth and charm all human eyes . " COWPER . Ray says , " No knowledge can be more pleasant to the soul than Natural History : none so satisfying , or that doth so feed the mind . The treasures of Nature are inex- haustible : there is ...
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... earth without art or cultivation . At Argos they fed chiefly on pears , at Athens on figs , in Arcadia on acorns ; but , as their numbers increased , it became necessary for them to cultivate vegetables for the subsist- ence of ...
... earth without art or cultivation . At Argos they fed chiefly on pears , at Athens on figs , in Arcadia on acorns ; but , as their numbers increased , it became necessary for them to cultivate vegetables for the subsist- ence of ...
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... good humour in those who walk , and create appetite in those who join in the labour , whether to turn the earth , or to prop the drooping flower . For where is the man who can forbear to join " the general 8 INTRODUCTION .
... good humour in those who walk , and create appetite in those who join in the labour , whether to turn the earth , or to prop the drooping flower . For where is the man who can forbear to join " the general 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... earth . And this may pass for a reason why most roots are more endowed with this property than their plants . The root of asparagus is one of those called the five opening roots : it is also of some use as a pectoral ; and makes a chief ...
... earth . And this may pass for a reason why most roots are more endowed with this property than their plants . The root of asparagus is one of those called the five opening roots : it is also of some use as a pectoral ; and makes a chief ...
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... the head - ache . From the roots of this plant , sugar has been extracted ; by boiling them when taken out of the earth , slicing them when cold , and afterwards pressing out the juice , which is filtered 80 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES .
... the head - ache . From the roots of this plant , sugar has been extracted ; by boiling them when taken out of the earth , slicing them when cold , and afterwards pressing out the juice , which is filtered 80 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES .
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History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal ... Henry Phillips Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal ... Henry Phillips Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1827 |
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Sida 202 - ... where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Sida 194 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and. brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26. And all the women whose hearts stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
Sida 249 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Sida 299 - And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of II spikenard very precious ; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Sida vii - Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas; Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!
Sida 270 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Sida 17 - ... be admirable. Hence, I went to my worthy friend, Sir Henry Capel, [at Kew] brother to the Earl of Essex : it is an old timber-house ; but his garden has the choicest fruit of any plantation in England, as he is the most industrious and understanding in it.
Sida 65 - The latent rill, scarce oozing through the grass, Of growth luxuriant; or the humid bank, In fair profusion, decks. Long let us walk, Where the breeze blows from yon extended field Of blossom'd beans. Arabia cannot boast A fuller gale of joy than, liberal, thence Breathes through the sense, and takes the ravish'd soul.
Sida 194 - And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.
Sida 337 - And pierc'd with pity, hastens her relief. A branch of healing dittany she brought, Which in the Cretan fields with care she sought...