The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]., Volume 10 |
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... plants , belong- ing to the natural order Gentianacea , and inhabiting dry sandy places in Great Britain and other parts of Europe , especially near the sea . The species have small oval sessile ribbed radical leaves , diminishing in ...
... plants , belong- ing to the natural order Gentianacea , and inhabiting dry sandy places in Great Britain and other parts of Europe , especially near the sea . The species have small oval sessile ribbed radical leaves , diminishing in ...
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... plants , related to the genus Ribes , in the opinion of some , but to that of Saxifraga , according to other botanists . It consists of shrubs with evergreen leaves , which often emit a powerful odour like that of melilot ; their ...
... plants , related to the genus Ribes , in the opinion of some , but to that of Saxifraga , according to other botanists . It consists of shrubs with evergreen leaves , which often emit a powerful odour like that of melilot ; their ...
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... plants , inhabiting California and the north- western coast of North America , and now become extremely common in the gardens of Great Britain . They are known by the base of their calyx remaining at the base of the sili- quose fruit in ...
... plants , inhabiting California and the north- western coast of North America , and now become extremely common in the gardens of Great Britain . They are known by the base of their calyx remaining at the base of the sili- quose fruit in ...
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... plant to plant is sufficient . The training on espalier is very simple , and easily per- formed . When the trees are young , one shoot must be trained perpendicularly , and two others horizontally , one from each side ; the two last ...
... plant to plant is sufficient . The training on espalier is very simple , and easily per- formed . When the trees are young , one shoot must be trained perpendicularly , and two others horizontally , one from each side ; the two last ...
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... plants of Van Diemen's Land says nished them with corn , supplied them with horses , and was considered of more value to them than all their other co- lonies put together . During the Peloponnesian war , after In the dismemberment of ...
... plants of Van Diemen's Land says nished them with corn , supplied them with horses , and was considered of more value to them than all their other co- lonies put together . During the Peloponnesian war , after In the dismemberment of ...
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Page 153 - ... and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case, but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Page 267 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil.
Page 267 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 218 - Know ye this, my lord, that I shall be faithful and true unto you, and faith to you shall bear for the lands which I claim to hold of you, and that I shall lawfully do to you the customs and services which I ought to do, at the terms assigned, so help me God and His saints"; and he shall kiss the book.
Page 177 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 101 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 259 - ... of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and...
Page 267 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 213 - If a ferry is erected on a river, so near another ancient ferry as to draw away its custom, it is a nuisance to the owner of the old one. For where there is a ferry by prescription, the owner is bound to keep it always in repair and readiness, for the ease of all the king's subjects; otherwise he may be...
Page 230 - ... of the court, the plaintiff is at liberty to proceed against him for any other personal injury; which surmise, of being in the marshal's custody, the defendant is not at liberty to dispute.