The Natural History of Pliny, Volum 4H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 544 sider |
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... numerous properties they possess — all of which have been engendered by her with a view to either the preser- vation or the gratification of the human race . On entering , however , upon this branch of my subject , it is my wish in the ...
... numerous properties they possess — all of which have been engendered by her with a view to either the preser- vation or the gratification of the human race . On entering , however , upon this branch of my subject , it is my wish in the ...
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... numerous are the good and estimable characters which she has produced ! just in the same proportion that we find her giving birth to productions which are at once both salutary and nutritious to man . It is in our high esteem for men ...
... numerous are the good and estimable characters which she has produced ! just in the same proportion that we find her giving birth to productions which are at once both salutary and nutritious to man . It is in our high esteem for men ...
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... numerous learned authors and writers in verse , together with other illustrious men , whose authority it is my intention to follow ; but among the number I may here more particularly distinguish M. Varro , who , at the advanced age of ...
... numerous learned authors and writers in verse , together with other illustrious men , whose authority it is my intention to follow ; but among the number I may here more particularly distinguish M. Varro , who , at the advanced age of ...
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... numerous or more unerring . And why should we not view in the light of oracles those precepts which have been tested by the infal- libility of time and the truthfulness of experience ? ( 5. ) To make a beginning , then , with Cato 4 5 ...
... numerous or more unerring . And why should we not view in the light of oracles those precepts which have been tested by the infal- libility of time and the truthfulness of experience ? ( 5. ) To make a beginning , then , with Cato 4 5 ...
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... numerous directions given in B. xv . Virgil , Geor . B. ii . 421 , et seq . , speaks of the olive as re- quiring no attention when it has once taken root . 76 See B. xvii . c . 3 . 77 In throwing away money and labour upon land that ...
... numerous directions given in B. xv . Virgil , Geor . B. ii . 421 , et seq . , speaks of the olive as re- quiring no attention when it has once taken root . 76 See B. xvii . c . 3 . 77 In throwing away money and labour upon land that ...
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