A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Volume 1C. Knight, 1830 - 422 pages |
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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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Volume 1 A Description and History of Vegetable Substances: Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy : Timber Trees, Fruits, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) Library of entertaining knowledge |
| Contributor | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | C. Knight, 1830 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2008 |
| Length | 422 pages |
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