 Botany,' when finished, will be exhaustive of the subject, and worthy of the branch of science it illustrates In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help...  The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italyaf Thomas Keightley - 1877 - 508 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 sider
...Illustrates.' . . In turning over the charmingly executed handcoloured plates of British plants 'which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help...will be sufficient to state that the work is pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these lales."— Times, " Will be the most complete... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser, Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 528 sider
...executed bar. coloured plates of British plant* which encumber these volumes with riches, the reac cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tre on with careless step. We -annot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in t splendid bouquet... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 604 sider
...illustrates. ... In turning over the charmingly executed handcoloured plates of British plants ;w^cn encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help...weeds we tread on with careless step. We cannot dwell npon many of the Individuals grouped In the splendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages, and... | |
 | Joseph Toynbee - 1866 - 66 sider
...charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with ri hes, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty...humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. Our fields, woods, and hillsides, are paved with riches we all too much neglect. . We cannot dwell... | |
 | Samuel Osborne Habershon - 1866 - 324 sider
...turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volnmes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of tbe humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. Our fields, woods, and hillsides are paved... | |
 | Ralph Tate - 1866 - 336 sider
...plants which encumher these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help heing struck with the heauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with careless step. Our fields, woods, and hillsides, are paved with riches we all too much neglect. . . We cannot dwell... | |
 | F. A. Schwarzenberg - 1866 - 254 sider
...illustrates. . . In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the heauiy of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with»careless step. Our fields, woods,... | |
 | Johann Nave - 1867 - 232 sider
...illustrates In turning over tin.' charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of Hritish plants which encumber thes-e volumes with riches, the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many o: the humblest flowermg weeds we tread on with careless step. Our fields, woods, an,l hillsides, are... | |
 | Gordon Stables - 1868 - 152 sider
...illustrates In turning over the charmingly executed hand-coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches, the reader cannot help...dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the eplendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages. and it will be sufficient to state that the work... | |
 | Gordon Stables - 1868 - 152 sider
...we tread on with careless step. We cannot dwell upon many of the individuals grouped in the eplendid bouquet of flowers presented in these pages. and it...will be sufficient to state that the work is pledged to contain a figure of every wild flower indigenous to these isles.'— The Times, Nov. 3, 1865. '... | |
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