The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4H. G. Bohn, 1856 - 544 pages |
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... Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto 35. Cabbage - sprouts 36. The wild cabbage : thirty - seven remedies 37. The lapsana : one remedy 38. The sea - cabbage ; one remedy 39. The squill twenty - three remedies 237 .. 239 240 241 ib ...
... Opinions of the Greeks relative thereto 35. Cabbage - sprouts 36. The wild cabbage : thirty - seven remedies 37. The lapsana : one remedy 38. The sea - cabbage ; one remedy 39. The squill twenty - three remedies 237 .. 239 240 241 ib ...
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... opinion , that before everything , mode- ration should be observed in the extent of a farm ; for it was a favourite maxim of theirs , that we ought to sow the less , and plough the more : such too , I find , was the opinion entertained ...
... opinion , that before everything , mode- ration should be observed in the extent of a farm ; for it was a favourite maxim of theirs , that we ought to sow the less , and plough the more : such too , I find , was the opinion entertained ...
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... opinion , that a person , on buying a farm , ought at once to sell his town house ; 70 an opinion , however , which savours of too great rigidity , and is by no means conformable to the public good . It is with these words , indeed ...
... opinion , that a person , on buying a farm , ought at once to sell his town house ; 70 an opinion , however , which savours of too great rigidity , and is by no means conformable to the public good . It is with these words , indeed ...
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... opinion that it can only be looked for in the Sisym- brium irio of Linnæus . 96 Ervum lens of Linnæus . 97 The Cicer arietinum of naturalists , the Garbanzo of the Spaniards . It abounds in the south of Europe and in India . 98 A ...
... opinion that it can only be looked for in the Sisym- brium irio of Linnæus . 96 Ervum lens of Linnæus . 97 The Cicer arietinum of naturalists , the Garbanzo of the Spaniards . It abounds in the south of Europe and in India . 98 A ...
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... opinion of the Greeks , that marked them as the peculiar growth of a rich soil . On the other hand , they recommended for sowing in humid soils an extremely light and diminutive species of grain , with a remarkably thin stalk , known to ...
... opinion of the Greeks , that marked them as the peculiar growth of a rich soil . On the other hand , they recommended for sowing in humid soils an extremely light and diminutive species of grain , with a remarkably thin stalk , known to ...
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