Pomarium Britannicum: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Great BritainT. and J. Allman, 1821 - 378 páginas |
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... feet in circumference , it divides into eleven vast arms , which overspread an area of three hundred feet in circuit : beneath this shade an annual fair has long been held on the 2d of July ; but no booth is suffered to be erected ...
... feet in circumference , it divides into eleven vast arms , which overspread an area of three hundred feet in circuit : beneath this shade an annual fair has long been held on the 2d of July ; but no booth is suffered to be erected ...
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... feet for the larger branches , contained in the whole 1,455 feet of timber , round measure , or twenty - nine loads and five feet , at fifty feet to a load . In the vale of Gloucestershire , near the turnpike road between Cheltenham and ...
... feet for the larger branches , contained in the whole 1,455 feet of timber , round measure , or twenty - nine loads and five feet , at fifty feet to a load . In the vale of Gloucestershire , near the turnpike road between Cheltenham and ...
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... feet long 450 ft . Twelve limbs and collateral parts , contained 1850 Dead limbs 126 2426 ft.or 48 loads and 26 ft . - Quantity of bark , 65 cwt . and 16 stacks of wood . Four men were three weeks and two days in felling and stripping ...
... feet long 450 ft . Twelve limbs and collateral parts , contained 1850 Dead limbs 126 2426 ft.or 48 loads and 26 ft . - Quantity of bark , 65 cwt . and 16 stacks of wood . Four men were three weeks and two days in felling and stripping ...
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... feet and a half , and three inches in thickness . It is related that they set great store on woods of curious grains : some there are mentioned with curling veins , which were called tigrina ( tiger tables ) ; others , pantherne ...
... feet and a half , and three inches in thickness . It is related that they set great store on woods of curious grains : some there are mentioned with curling veins , which were called tigrina ( tiger tables ) ; others , pantherne ...
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... feet high , and eight feet in circumference . I conclude it was planted by Bishop Compton , who in- troduced many new plants and forest trees from North America and other parts of the world . APRICOT .-- ARMENIACA ; Or , PRÆCOCIA MALA ...
... feet high , and eight feet in circumference . I conclude it was planted by Bishop Compton , who in- troduced many new plants and forest trees from North America and other parts of the world . APRICOT .-- ARMENIACA ; Or , PRÆCOCIA MALA ...
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Página 15 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Página 32 - And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness ; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
Página 194 - Where Autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, My pleasing theme continual prompts my thought: Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum: The ruddy, fragrant nectarine; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig. The vine too here her curling tendrils shoots; Hangs out her clusters, glowing to the south ; And scarcely wishes for a warmer sky.
Página 186 - The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
Página 264 - The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them ; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Página 42 - Let every tree in every garden own The Redstreak as supreme ; whose pulpous fruit With gold irradiate, and vermilion, shines Tempting, not fatal, as the birth of that Primeval interdicted plant, that won Fond Eve in hapless hour to taste, and die. This, of more bounteous influence, inspires Poetic raptures, and the lowly Muse Kindles to loftier strains ; even I perceive Her sacred virtue.
Página 185 - And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow ; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Página 359 - And learn what habitants possess'd the place. They went and found a hospitable race; Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast; The trees around them, all their fruit produce; Lotos, the name; divine nectareous juice!
Página 269 - Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire. 4 And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
Página 314 - And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.