Flora's DictionaryFielding Lucas, Jr., 1837 - 220 էջ |
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... appears to be performed ; and the product of this elaboration is after- wards conveyed through the whole vegetable , by ... appear upon cutting the stem near the root . The bark is the most essential part of the vegetable , by means of ...
... appears to be performed ; and the product of this elaboration is after- wards conveyed through the whole vegetable , by ... appear upon cutting the stem near the root . The bark is the most essential part of the vegetable , by means of ...
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Elizabeth Washington Wirt. appears to be constituted of a sort of glassy net - work , which is chiefly silicious earth , as has been lately ascertained . This is the case in the Wheat , Oat , and in different plants . The Stalks are ...
Elizabeth Washington Wirt. appears to be constituted of a sort of glassy net - work , which is chiefly silicious earth , as has been lately ascertained . This is the case in the Wheat , Oat , and in different plants . The Stalks are ...
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... appear essential to the growth of any sort of plant except the Marine ; such matters may , however , be of use to vegetation , though not essential to it . That of common salt may operate upon plants as it does upon the human body , by ...
... appear essential to the growth of any sort of plant except the Marine ; such matters may , however , be of use to vegetation , though not essential to it . That of common salt may operate upon plants as it does upon the human body , by ...
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... appear at all improbable , that they share its elaboration . In other cases , the richly coloured petals of flowers , possibly answer the same end . ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS . Flowers are arranged into Classes , Orders , Genera , and ...
... appear at all improbable , that they share its elaboration . In other cases , the richly coloured petals of flowers , possibly answer the same end . ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWERS . Flowers are arranged into Classes , Orders , Genera , and ...
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... appears to me to be a more satisfactory arrange- ment . Natural Orders of plants are such as are founded on principles of natural affinity ; bringing together , under one point of view , such Genera as have certain charac- ters in ...
... appears to me to be a more satisfactory arrange- ment . Natural Orders of plants are such as are founded on principles of natural affinity ; bringing together , under one point of view , such Genera as have certain charac- ters in ...
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Flora's Dictionary. [A treatise on the language of flowers. With a series of ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
Common terms and phrases
Amaranth ancient ANSWER Aster bear beauty berries Bishop bloom blossoms blue blush botanists branches breath bright Byron called calyx charms Class 12 Class 14 Class 21 colour common corolla crimson Crocus crown cultivated dark Darwin DECANDRIA deciduous derived Dryden earth emblem esteemed fair five florets flowers fragrance frankincense fruit garden genus Gilly flower grace Greek green grows hath heart heaven honour hyacinth Juss Latin Laurustinus leaf leaves light lily Linn Linnæus Lotos Love's lover Lychnis MONOGYNIA Moore Moss Narcissus native ne'er nectary o'er odour Order ovate Ovid pale panicle passion PENTANDRIA perennial perianth petals pink pistils plant POLYANDRIA POLYGAMIA Pope Primrose Primula purple resembling root ROSA rose seeds shade Shaks shrub smile smooth soul species spring stalk stamens stem sweet thee thine thou thought tree tulip umbel variety violet virtue wild word yellow Young
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Էջ 124 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Էջ 82 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Էջ 56 - The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show...
Էջ 88 - Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction; had he rain'd All kinds of sores, and shames, on my bare head; Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips; Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience: but (alas!) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,— O!
Էջ 1 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Էջ 32 - I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Էջ 24 - But that loveliness, ever in motion, which plays Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, Now here and now there, giving warmth as it flies From the lips to the cheek, from the cheek to the eyes, Now melting in mist and now breaking in gleams, Like the glimpses a saint has of heaven in his dreams...
Էջ 80 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Էջ 80 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
Էջ 96 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...