History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities; Natural History; and Relation to Art, Science, and Commerce, Volume 1 |
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... field ; he therefore now offers his Treatise on " CULTIVATED VEGE- TABLES , " in a similar shape , with a hope of similar reception . Considering , however , the almost infinite variety of plants which are cultivated for use or pleasure ...
... field ; he therefore now offers his Treatise on " CULTIVATED VEGE- TABLES , " in a similar shape , with a hope of similar reception . Considering , however , the almost infinite variety of plants which are cultivated for use or pleasure ...
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... fields . Gardens have ever been esteemed as afford- ing the purest of human pleasures , and the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; and as these rural delights greatly promote sedateness and quietness of mind , while they ...
... fields . Gardens have ever been esteemed as afford- ing the purest of human pleasures , and the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; and as these rural delights greatly promote sedateness and quietness of mind , while they ...
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... from tombs the stalking ghost , And from the roots to tear the standing corn , Which , whirl'd aloft , to distant fields is borne : Such is the strength of spells . " VIRGIL . " In a large caldron now the medicine boils , 10 INTRODUCTION .
... from tombs the stalking ghost , And from the roots to tear the standing corn , Which , whirl'd aloft , to distant fields is borne : Such is the strength of spells . " VIRGIL . " In a large caldron now the medicine boils , 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... field made old people young . " Reason tells us , that a well - tilled garden produces us more real luxuries , than mines of gold or oceans of pearls could afford us ; and experience teaches us , that although we are not made young by ...
... field made old people young . " Reason tells us , that a well - tilled garden produces us more real luxuries , than mines of gold or oceans of pearls could afford us ; and experience teaches us , that although we are not made young by ...
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... field - mouse is a great destroyer of the roots of these plants ; and it is a good pre- servative of them to plant beets round the beds of artichokes ; as the roots of the beet , being still more agreeable to the taste of these little ...
... field - mouse is a great destroyer of the roots of these plants ; and it is a good pre- servative of them to plant beets round the beds of artichokes ; as the roots of the beet , being still more agreeable to the taste of these little ...
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page vii - Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas; Atque metus omnes et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!
Page 270 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...