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... enclosure . The good man Noah , we are told , planted a vineyard , drank of the wine , and was drunken , and every body knows the consequences . Thus we acquired kit- chen - gardens , orchards , and vineyards . I am ap- prized that the ...
... enclosure . The good man Noah , we are told , planted a vineyard , drank of the wine , and was drunken , and every body knows the consequences . Thus we acquired kit- chen - gardens , orchards , and vineyards . I am ap- prized that the ...
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... enclosure all around . The trees were apples , figs , pomegranates , pears , olives , and vines . Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The redd'ning apple ripens into gold . Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows ...
... enclosure all around . The trees were apples , figs , pomegranates , pears , olives , and vines . Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The redd'ning apple ripens into gold . Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows ...
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... enclosure was dignified by walls ; and in climes where fruits were not lavished by the ripening glow of nature and soil , fruit - trees were assisted and sheltered from surrounding winds by the like expedient ; for the inundation of ...
... enclosure was dignified by walls ; and in climes where fruits were not lavished by the ripening glow of nature and soil , fruit - trees were assisted and sheltered from surrounding winds by the like expedient ; for the inundation of ...
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