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I confess , my dear , " said she to Agnes , " that I prefer solitude to the society of what is called the gay world . I think silence as good as insignificance , and far preferable to scandal , or that fashionable wit and banter , which ...
I confess , my dear , " said she to Agnes , " that I prefer solitude to the society of what is called the gay world . I think silence as good as insignificance , and far preferable to scandal , or that fashionable wit and banter , which ...
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A vegetable or plant rising with one uniform permanent ligneous body , called the trunk ( truncus ) , dividing above into branches , having buds . NOTES . 1. Arbor , a tree . - Not in Linnæus , but Truncus arboreus , which is thus ...
A vegetable or plant rising with one uniform permanent ligneous body , called the trunk ( truncus ) , dividing above into branches , having buds . NOTES . 1. Arbor , a tree . - Not in Linnæus , but Truncus arboreus , which is thus ...
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All trees , says he , whether they bear buds or not , are covered with the two barks , the outer and inner , called by botanists , cortex and liber . Shrubs differ from herbaceous vegetables in the duration of their stems ; from trees ...
All trees , says he , whether they bear buds or not , are covered with the two barks , the outer and inner , called by botanists , cortex and liber . Shrubs differ from herbaceous vegetables in the duration of their stems ; from trees ...
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The flower - stalk , under other circumstances , is called peuduncle ( pedunculus ) . 1. Truncus elevans fructificationem , nec folia . - LINNAEUS . 2. A stem bearing the fructification , without leaves . Some have translated this ...
The flower - stalk , under other circumstances , is called peuduncle ( pedunculus ) . 1. Truncus elevans fructificationem , nec folia . - LINNAEUS . 2. A stem bearing the fructification , without leaves . Some have translated this ...
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STIPES , from the Greek STUPOs , a stump , or stake ; may it not be from stipo , to bind , things being packed up and bound with the feru - leaf which is called a frons . 1. Basis frondis , proprius palmis , ilicibus , fungis .
STIPES , from the Greek STUPOs , a stump , or stake ; may it not be from stipo , to bind , things being packed up and bound with the feru - leaf which is called a frons . 1. Basis frondis , proprius palmis , ilicibus , fungis .
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Page 16 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 30 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased.
Page 30 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 5 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 61 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 86 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 62 - What if the sun Be centre to the world ; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...