Familiar Lectures on Botany: Including Practical and Elementary Botany : with Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Most Common Native and Foreign Plants, and a Vocabulary of Botanical Terms : for the Use of Higher Schools and AcademiesF.J. Huntington, 1832 - 440 páginas |
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... beautiful and regular systems , by which we can comprehend , under a few terms , the vast number of individual things , which would , otherwise , pre- sent to our bewildered minds a confused and indiscriminate mass . This power of the ...
... beautiful and regular systems , by which we can comprehend , under a few terms , the vast number of individual things , which would , otherwise , pre- sent to our bewildered minds a confused and indiscriminate mass . This power of the ...
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... beautiful and delicate ; its pursuits , leading to exercise in the open air , are conducive to health and cheerfulness . It is not a sedentary study which can be acquired in the library , but the objects of the science are scattered ...
... beautiful and delicate ; its pursuits , leading to exercise in the open air , are conducive to health and cheerfulness . It is not a sedentary study which can be acquired in the library , but the objects of the science are scattered ...
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... beautiful forms and co- lours ; in their fragrance , by which , in their peculiar language , they seem to hold secret communion with our minds ; He has not only given them for our food and clothing , but with kind , parental care , has ...
... beautiful forms and co- lours ; in their fragrance , by which , in their peculiar language , they seem to hold secret communion with our minds ; He has not only given them for our food and clothing , but with kind , parental care , has ...
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... beautiful , and may be rendered highly useful , by affording an opportunity to compare many species together , and it likewise serves to fix in the mind the characters of plants . It is a good method in collecting plants for an ...
... beautiful , and may be rendered highly useful , by affording an opportunity to compare many species together , and it likewise serves to fix in the mind the characters of plants . It is a good method in collecting plants for an ...
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... beautiful , although their relative beauty , as subservient to scientific illustra- tion , is certainly destroyed by the labour of the florist . The love of native wild flowers is no doubt greatly heigtened by the habit of seeking them ...
... beautiful , although their relative beauty , as subservient to scientific illustra- tion , is certainly destroyed by the labour of the florist . The love of native wild flowers is no doubt greatly heigtened by the habit of seeking them ...
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Página 215 - Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 303 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 303 - Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; 1 VOID : empty.
Página 324 - all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that was made.
Página 304 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Página 285 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Página 303 - O flowers That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Página 80 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and, ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright...
Página 434 - And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Página 305 - Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns?