Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 7. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 544
... garden be too high , it will be ex- pofed to the winds , which are very prejudicial to trees ; and if it be too low , the dampnefs , the vermin , and the venomous creatures that breed in ponds and mar- thy places , add much to their ...
... garden be too high , it will be ex- pofed to the winds , which are very prejudicial to trees ; and if it be too low , the dampnefs , the vermin , and the venomous creatures that breed in ponds and mar- thy places , add much to their ...
Page 545
... garden feem to have predominated . The word Paradife itself is fynonymous with garden . The fields of Ely fium , that fweet region of pocly , are adorned with all that imagination can conceive to be delightful . Some of the most ...
... garden feem to have predominated . The word Paradife itself is fynonymous with garden . The fields of Ely fium , that fweet region of pocly , are adorned with all that imagination can conceive to be delightful . Some of the most ...
Page 546
... gardens , orchards , and vine- yards . No doubt the prototype of all these forts was the garden of Eden ; but as that Paradife was a good deal larger than any we read of afterwards , being in- lofed by the rivers Pifon , Gihon ...
... gardens , orchards , and vine- yards . No doubt the prototype of all these forts was the garden of Eden ; but as that Paradife was a good deal larger than any we read of afterwards , being in- lofed by the rivers Pifon , Gihon ...
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