Familiar Lectures on Botany: Including Practical and Elementary Botany : with Generic and Specific Descriptions of the Most Common Native and Foreign Plants, and a Vocabulary of Botanical Terms : for the Use of Higher Schools and AcademiesF.J. Huntington, 1832 - 440 páginas |
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... kind offices , are justly due . It has been customary among botanical writers , to consider under separate heads , the physiology , anatomy , and classification of plants . This division , although proper in minute investigations upon ...
... kind offices , are justly due . It has been customary among botanical writers , to consider under separate heads , the physiology , anatomy , and classification of plants . This division , although proper in minute investigations upon ...
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... kind of explanation , over that of any abstract idea , is , that it is manifested to the senses of the pupils , by the object before them . If a teacher attempt to define the words , reason , will , & c . or any other abstract terms ...
... kind of explanation , over that of any abstract idea , is , that it is manifested to the senses of the pupils , by the object before them . If a teacher attempt to define the words , reason , will , & c . or any other abstract terms ...
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... kind of business , and in the arrangement of household concerns , it is indispensa- ble to the success of the one , and to the comfort of those inter- ested in the other . The very logical and systematic arrange- ment which prevails in ...
... kind of business , and in the arrangement of household concerns , it is indispensa- ble to the success of the one , and to the comfort of those inter- ested in the other . The very logical and systematic arrange- ment which prevails in ...
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... kind , parental care , has , in them , provided powers to counteract and remove the diseases to which mankind are subject . For many ages plants were the only medicines known , or used ; but modern discoveries in Chemistry , by forming ...
... kind , parental care , has , in them , provided powers to counteract and remove the diseases to which mankind are subject . For many ages plants were the only medicines known , or used ; but modern discoveries in Chemistry , by forming ...
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... kind of knob , like a little box , which , when the flower comes to maturity , opens , , and throws out a colour- ed dust , called the Pollen . The central organ is called the Pistil ( c ) ; this consists of three parts , the top ...
... kind of knob , like a little box , which , when the flower comes to maturity , opens , , and throws out a colour- ed dust , called the Pollen . The central organ is called the Pistil ( c ) ; this consists of three parts , the top ...
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Página 215 - Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Página 303 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 303 - Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth"; 1 VOID : empty.
Página 324 - all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that was made.
Página 304 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Página 285 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Página 303 - O flowers That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Página 80 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours : nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and, ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright...
Página 434 - And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
Página 305 - Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns?