A Natural Arrangement of British Plants: According to Their Relations to Each Other as Pointed Out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c. ...

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1821 - Botany - 824 pages
 

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Page xxviii - Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 776 - Wrapt close in conscious peace. The fall of kings, The rage of nations, and the crush of states, Move not the man, who, from the world escaped, In still retreats, and flowery solitudes, To Nature's voice attends...
Page ii - ... astonish'd sun, And all the extinguish'd stars, would, loosening, reel Wide from their spheres, and Chaos come again. And yet was every faltering tongue of man, Almighty Father ! silent in Thy praise, Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, Even in the depth of solitary woods By human foot untrod ; proclaim Thy power, And to the choir celestial Thee resound, The eternal Cause, Support, and End of all...
Page 776 - To Nature's voice attends, from month to month, And day to day, through the revolving year; Admiring, sees her in her every shape ; Feels all her sweet emotions at his heart; Takes what she liberal gives, nor thinks of more.
Page i - A natural arrangement of British plants according to their relations to each other as pointed out by Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c., including those cultivated for use; with an introduction to botany, in which the terms newly introduced are explained; illustrated by figures.
Page xxviii - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the...
Page 14 - I could never learn one Greke, neither Latin, nor English name, even amongst the physicians, of any herbe or tree: such was the ignorance at that time ; and as yet ther was no English Herbal, but one all full of unlearned cacographies and falsely learning of herbs.
Page 14 - Turner lived, and the little assistance he could derive from his contemporaries, he will appear to have exhibited uncommon diligence, and great erudition, and fully to deserve the character of an original writer.
Page 4 - ... and in one respect surpasses most in that, while wealth may exhibit its splendour in collecting living plants, yet the study is also compatible with the most humble fortunes, and may...
Page 13 - Henry, endeavoured . to forget the slights of the monarch in the cultivation of vegetables. And it is probable, that some of the kitchengardeners at Chelsea are the descendants of the Flemish gardeners, whom her real brother sent over to manage her garden there.

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