Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in NorfolkN. Douglas, 1927 - 202 pages |
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... vegetable divi- don and di- fions by Quincuncial and Reticulate plants ; whereof we or erect a new Phytology . The Field of mention knowledge bath been fo traced , it is hard to none , left fpring any thing new . Of old things we omit ...
... vegetable divi- don and di- fions by Quincuncial and Reticulate plants ; whereof we or erect a new Phytology . The Field of mention knowledge bath been fo traced , it is hard to none , left fpring any thing new . Of old things we omit ...
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... vegetable delights , beyond the reach of exception . The Turks who past their dayes in Gardens here , will have Gardens alfo hereafter , and de- lighting in Flowers on earth , must have Lil- lies and Rofes in Heaven , In Garden De ...
... vegetable delights , beyond the reach of exception . The Turks who past their dayes in Gardens here , will have Gardens alfo hereafter , and de- lighting in Flowers on earth , must have Lil- lies and Rofes in Heaven , In Garden De ...
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... Vegetables , Jome confined their delights unto fingle plants , and Cato feemed to dote upon Cab- badge ; While the Ingenuous delight of Tu- lipifts , ftands faluted with hard language , e- i Tulipo ma- ven by their own i Profeffors ...
... Vegetables , Jome confined their delights unto fingle plants , and Cato feemed to dote upon Cab- badge ; While the Ingenuous delight of Tu- lipifts , ftands faluted with hard language , e- i Tulipo ma- ven by their own i Profeffors ...
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... vegetables . Time hath endleffe ra- rities , and shows of all varieties ; which reveals old things in heaven , makes new discoveries in earth , and even earth it felf a discovery . That great Antiquity America lay buried for a thousand ...
... vegetables . Time hath endleffe ra- rities , and shows of all varieties ; which reveals old things in heaven , makes new discoveries in earth , and even earth it felf a discovery . That great Antiquity America lay buried for a thousand ...
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... vegetable creati- on , and first ornamentall Scene of na- ture ; the primitive food of animals , and first story of Phyfick , in Dietetical con- fervation . b fronde tegi flvas . For though Phyfick may pleade high , from that medicall ...
... vegetable creati- on , and first ornamentall Scene of na- ture ; the primitive food of animals , and first story of Phyfick , in Dietetical con- fervation . b fronde tegi flvas . For though Phyfick may pleade high , from that medicall ...
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