 Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.  Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses - Σελίδα 181των American Institute of Instruction - 1841Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Augusta M. Wicks - 1845 - 214 σελίδες
...eternity itself to explore the depths of art and learning. 46 That there is always, as the Poet said,— " Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed." Ask the man of this world, and he assuredly will complain of the fleeting vanishing pleasures in which... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1846 - 392 σελίδες
...enjoyment would have been more complete ; for gardeners in general are choice observers ; to them • Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. " The marble fountains of Pamphili Doria, its lofty trees, its waterfalls, its terraces, its shrubs... | |
 | Thomas Winter - 1847 - 362 σελίδες
...variety is the most esteemed for cultivation as an ornamental fiower. ANEMONE. (ANEMONE COK.ONARIA.) "Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...again, and still find something new, Something to learn, and something to digest, E'en in the humble weed." The Anemone is a species of wind-flower,... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - 1860 - 628 σελίδες
...when you may just ae well pluck sweet flowers, and eat pleasant fruits? NATURE'S TEACHINGS. Ш'НШН. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and stilt und something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en In the noisome weed.... | |
 | William Paul - 1848 - 426 σελίδες
...learn a lesson from them: or, even were it so, the great book of Nature is open to us all, in which " we may read, and read, And read again, and still find...new: Something to please, and something to instruct." To me the difference between the climates of England and France seems the only point worthy of consideration;... | |
 | 1848 - 358 σελίδες
...plant, a leaf, a hlossom, hut contains A folio rolume ; we may read, and read, And read again, hut still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed." Let us, then, look upon this world as the patrimony of man, adorned and fitted for his ahode, hy his... | |
 | Robert Holden Webb, William Higgins Coleman - 1849 - 462 σελίδες
...ORDER— BERBERIDE,E. Let us read The living page, whose ev'ry character Delights and gives us wisdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...and something to instruct, E'en In the noisome weed. HORDIS. BERBERIS. Barberry. LINN. Cl. vi. OR0. i. NAME. Berberys is said to be the Arabic name of the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 σελίδες
...treatise on that delightful science can I obtain ?" And who, friend CWG, is not fond of flowers ? " Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the humble weed." At the risk of lauding our own wares, we will recommend to CWG, and to those of our readers... | |
 | 1898 - 712 σελίδες
...world. Miss Roberts obtained these facts from Mr. Leigh three years ago. —J." GHJ (9* 8. ii. 228.) A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume....again, and still find something new, .Something to jilease, and something to instruct E'en in the noisome weed, is from the Rev. James Hurdis, DD, 'The... | |
 | Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club - 1846 - 474 σελίδες
...human skill. Nor need we go far for examples, for rarity is not an element in this investigation ; " Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed." Messrs. Hardy and Bold presented the second part of their valuable ' Catalogue of the Insects of Northumberland... | |
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