The Age of Enlightenment, Volume 2Barnes & Noble Books, 1980 |
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Page 84
... plants we now admire . The Weymouth - pine ' has long been naturalized here ; the patriarch plant still exists at Longleat . The light and graceful acacia was known as early ; witness those ancient stems in the court of Bedford - houses ...
... plants we now admire . The Weymouth - pine ' has long been naturalized here ; the patriarch plant still exists at Longleat . The light and graceful acacia was known as early ; witness those ancient stems in the court of Bedford - houses ...
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... plants and have clear ideas of them , which is what botany really is , than to memorize all the names which the various systems give to these plants , as a result of which scientific terminology has become more difficult than science ...
... plants and have clear ideas of them , which is what botany really is , than to memorize all the names which the various systems give to these plants , as a result of which scientific terminology has become more difficult than science ...
Page 168
... plants are found to have some unique features more constantly than all the other organs of the plant taken separately , there have suddenly arisen many systems of botany , each founded nearly upon the same principle . Among these ...
... plants are found to have some unique features more constantly than all the other organs of the plant taken separately , there have suddenly arisen many systems of botany , each founded nearly upon the same principle . Among these ...
Contents
Laugier Essay on Architecture 1753 | 8 |
William Chambers On Civil Architecture 1759 1791 | 24 |
James Stuart | 39 |
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The Age of Enlightenment: An Anthologie of Eighteenth-century Texts, Volume 2 Simon Eliot,Beverly Stern No preview available - 1984 |
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Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas Charles Harrison,Paul Wood,Jason Gaiger No preview available - 2001 |