Blackie's graded readers, ed. by M. Paterson, Part 8Maurice Paterson 1880 |
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... Roots of Plants , * The Earliest English Tragedy , The Spectator . — Part I. , * The Poet's Books , Shakespeare , William Ware , Edmund Burke , Thomas Campbell , Compiled , 47 53 · 55 57 60 Do. 64 Lord Macaulay , 67 R. Southey , 69 The ...
... Roots of Plants , * The Earliest English Tragedy , The Spectator . — Part I. , * The Poet's Books , Shakespeare , William Ware , Edmund Burke , Thomas Campbell , Compiled , 47 53 · 55 57 60 Do. 64 Lord Macaulay , 67 R. Southey , 69 The ...
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... roots and twigs and leaves and flowers . So rapid in some cases is this pro- cess , that a body of cells , not a hundredth part of the size of a pin's head , sometimes produces in a single night a plant which reaches the size of a large ...
... roots and twigs and leaves and flowers . So rapid in some cases is this pro- cess , that a body of cells , not a hundredth part of the size of a pin's head , sometimes produces in a single night a plant which reaches the size of a large ...
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... roots , stems , seeds , and fruits , where nature has caused it to be stored for the nourishment of the plant in the following year . In the Potato and common Pea the starch is present in the form of small white grains , lying separate ...
... roots , stems , seeds , and fruits , where nature has caused it to be stored for the nourishment of the plant in the following year . In the Potato and common Pea the starch is present in the form of small white grains , lying separate ...
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Maurice Paterson. other within the cells , whereas in the Arrow - root and Sago plants the grains are clustered together . 6. Arrow - root indeed , is nothing but the starch obtained from the roots of certain tropical plants , whereas ...
Maurice Paterson. other within the cells , whereas in the Arrow - root and Sago plants the grains are clustered together . 6. Arrow - root indeed , is nothing but the starch obtained from the roots of certain tropical plants , whereas ...
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Maurice Paterson. neither leaves , nor stems , nor roots . Fungi are attached to the sub- stances on which they grow by whitish filaments called spawn . The filaments spread out like a net - work and nourish the plant . beautiful green ...
Maurice Paterson. neither leaves , nor stems , nor roots . Fungi are attached to the sub- stances on which they grow by whitish filaments called spawn . The filaments spread out like a net - work and nourish the plant . beautiful green ...
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Page 298 - In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 180 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 181 - He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; JULIUS CAESAR—43 44—JULIUS CAESAR And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 12 - This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it,) Like to a tenement, or pelting farm : England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds ; That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself...
Page 284 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 12 - Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, — This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their birth...
Page 213 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 50 - Long in his highness' favour, and do justice For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones, When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans
Page 283 - No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Page 56 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.