The Eastern Arboretum: Or, Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens, &c. in the County of Norfolk : with Popular Delineations of the British Sylva |
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... grow up into a lofty pile , and shall keep on flourishing , and increas- ing , and benefiting mankind , long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields . " Indeed , it is the nature of such occupations to lift the thought ...
... grow up into a lofty pile , and shall keep on flourishing , and increas- ing , and benefiting mankind , long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields . " Indeed , it is the nature of such occupations to lift the thought ...
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... grow in . What would be thought of hedges of the Rhododendron ponticum growing around our fen dwellings about twenty B feet high and in full flower ? Such a thing THE ...
... grow in . What would be thought of hedges of the Rhododendron ponticum growing around our fen dwellings about twenty B feet high and in full flower ? Such a thing THE ...
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... grow on our well - tilled farms . Our moist land , again , as almost every one knows , is suited to display the beauties of the poplar and willow tribes ; and it is much to be regretted that some of our brooks and rivers are suffered to ...
... grow on our well - tilled farms . Our moist land , again , as almost every one knows , is suited to display the beauties of the poplar and willow tribes ; and it is much to be regretted that some of our brooks and rivers are suffered to ...
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... grow : we have seen it in great beauty and perfection even on the debris of rocks of a silicious character . Such is ... grown in England , as we are convinced that a knowledge leading to their pro- per distribution will induce many ...
... grow : we have seen it in great beauty and perfection even on the debris of rocks of a silicious character . Such is ... grown in England , as we are convinced that a knowledge leading to their pro- per distribution will induce many ...
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... growing around our churches is perhaps one of the happiest and most interesting traits of trees that we have in Norwich . In other cities this feature is less characteristic ; but here it is almost universal ; and it is worthy of being ...
... growing around our churches is perhaps one of the happiest and most interesting traits of trees that we have in Norwich . In other cities this feature is less characteristic ; but here it is almost universal ; and it is worthy of being ...
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Page 104 - The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Page 109 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page v - As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.
Page 110 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 111 - 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 197 - Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time, every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into which I have not yet had courage to enter, where lies that mother on whom I doated, and who doated on me ! There are the two rival mistresses...
Page iv - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of hushandry. It is worthy of liberal, and freeborn, and aspiring men.
Page 198 - What a dissonant idea of pleasure! those groves, those allees, where I have passed so many charming moments, are now stripped up or overgrown— many fond paths I could not unravel, though with a very exact...
Page 112 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Page vii - How many fond and how many lively thoughts have been nurtured under this tree ! how many kind hearts have beaten here ! Its branches are not so numerous as the couples they have invited to sit beside it, nor its blossoms and leaves as the expressions of tenderness it has witnessed. What appeals to the pure all-seeing heavens ! what similitudes to the everlasting mountains ! what protestations of eternal truth and constancy ! from those who now are earth ; they, and their shrouds, and their coffins...