A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Band 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... plants : CAL . quadrifid above ; there are four petals ; a dry plum , and a quadrilocular nut . HALS'ENING , udj . Germ . hals ; Scotch , HALSE , n . s . hass , the neck . Sound- HAL'SER , n . s . Without any halt they marched between ...
... plants : CAL . quadrifid above ; there are four petals ; a dry plum , and a quadrilocular nut . HALS'ENING , udj . Germ . hals ; Scotch , HALSE , n . s . hass , the neck . Sound- HAL'SER , n . s . Without any halt they marched between ...
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... plants . M. Chaussier observes , that mucilage is found in great quantity in many plants ; it may easily be extracted by boiling ; and a factitious gum , which is both supple and tenacious , may be formed by evaporation . These ...
... plants . M. Chaussier observes , that mucilage is found in great quantity in many plants ; it may easily be extracted by boiling ; and a factitious gum , which is both supple and tenacious , may be formed by evaporation . These ...
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... plants will do in a short time ; for they will shoot almost twenty feet in one year , and will mount up to the top of the highest building : but , as the leaves fall off in autumn , the plants make but an indifferent appearance in ...
... plants will do in a short time ; for they will shoot almost twenty feet in one year , and will mount up to the top of the highest building : but , as the leaves fall off in autumn , the plants make but an indifferent appearance in ...
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... plants will thrive best in it ; and what is the soil whence they are to be taken . The sets ought to be about the thickness of one's little finger , and cut within about four or five inches of the ground ; they ought to be fresh taken ...
... plants will thrive best in it ; and what is the soil whence they are to be taken . The sets ought to be about the thickness of one's little finger , and cut within about four or five inches of the ground ; they ought to be fresh taken ...
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... plants are then cut over , close by the ground , at convenient distances ; and the remaining plants are cut perhaps half through , so as to permit them to be bent to one side . They are then bent down almost to a horizontal position ...
... plants are then cut over , close by the ground , at convenient distances ; and the remaining plants are cut perhaps half through , so as to permit them to be bent to one side . They are then bent down almost to a horizontal position ...
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Seite 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Seite 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Seite 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Seite 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Seite 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Seite 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Seite 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Seite 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Seite 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.