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Page 259 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page xii - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Page 168 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.
Page 118 - 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 141 - 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 v - The most important food-producing trees, shrubs and herbs, including ornamental plants, fruits, nuts, medicinal plants, and those which furnish oils, dyes, lumber, textile fabrics, etc., are presented in a concise, but thorough manner.
Page 34 - They are easily raised from the seed, and a bed of the single varieties is a valuable addition to a flower-garden, as it affords, in a warm situation, an abundance of handsome and often brilliant spring flowers, almost as early a,s the snowdrop or crocus. The genus contains many other lively spring-blooming plants, of which A.
Page 121 - It is from three quarters of an inch, to an inch and a quarter in length, and from one third to half an inch in greatest breadth.
Page 44 - Petals hypogynous, either equal to the sepals in number, and opposite to them, or twice as many, sometimes with an appendage at the base in the inside.
Page v - ... etc., and that there has been a long felt want for a work of such practical character, and this book has been prepared to meet the demand." This assigns the work to a peculiar class, and practically takes it out of the domain of scientific botany. If other teachers find it necessary to use devices such as the author suggests in his preface, perhaps no one but the friends of the unfortunate pupils need make objection. It may be well to...