A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Volume 1 |
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... inferior in value only to her religion , her liberty , and the spirit and industry of her people . Of the Oak ( called Quercus , in Latin ) , there are fourteen species described by Linnæus . During the last fifty years , so much ...
... inferior in value only to her religion , her liberty , and the spirit and industry of her people . Of the Oak ( called Quercus , in Latin ) , there are fourteen species described by Linnæus . During the last fifty years , so much ...
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... inferior to that of the common oak of England : the oak from the central parts of continental Europe is also inferior , especially in compactness and resistance of cleavage . The knotty oak of England , the “ un- wedgeable and gnarled ...
... inferior to that of the common oak of England : the oak from the central parts of continental Europe is also inferior , especially in compactness and resistance of cleavage . The knotty oak of England , the “ un- wedgeable and gnarled ...
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... inferior species , bearing the same name . It is highly probable , however , that the cultivation of some species , both of oak and of other trees , in richer soils and less exposed situations than are favourable to their greatest ...
... inferior species , bearing the same name . It is highly probable , however , that the cultivation of some species , both of oak and of other trees , in richer soils and less exposed situations than are favourable to their greatest ...
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... inferior to the royal ones , was still a most stately tree . The Framlingham oak ( Suffolk ) , used in the construction of the Royal Sovereign , was four feet nine inches square , and yielded four square beams , each forty- four feet in ...
... inferior to the royal ones , was still a most stately tree . The Framlingham oak ( Suffolk ) , used in the construction of the Royal Sovereign , was four feet nine inches square , and yielded four square beams , each forty- four feet in ...
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... inferior in dimensions to the last mentioned , was a tree of immense size , — being between six and seven feet in diameter , at three feet from the ground . Damory's oak in Dorsetshire was the largest oak of which mention is made . Its ...
... inferior in dimensions to the last mentioned , was a tree of immense size , — being between six and seven feet in diameter , at three feet from the ground . Damory's oak in Dorsetshire was the largest oak of which mention is made . Its ...
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Page 272 - 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.
Page 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.
Page 288 - 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.
Page 287 - 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.
Page 224 - And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised : three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you : it shall not be eaten of.
Page 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.
Page 318 - ... but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.