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... rivers were necessary and if they weren't provided by nature they must be by man . The eye travelling to a spot ... river , the greens that ranged from the weeping - willow to the Weymouth pine , these al- lied themselves agreeably with ...
... rivers were necessary and if they weren't provided by nature they must be by man . The eye travelling to a spot ... river , the greens that ranged from the weeping - willow to the Weymouth pine , these al- lied themselves agreeably with ...
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... rivers Pison , Gihon , Hid- dekel , and Euphrates , as every tree that was pleasant to the sight and good for food grew in it , and as two other trees were likewise found there , of which not a slip or sucker remains , it does not ...
... rivers Pison , Gihon , Hid- dekel , and Euphrates , as every tree that was pleasant to the sight and good for food grew in it , and as two other trees were likewise found there , of which not a slip or sucker remains , it does not ...
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... as to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
... as to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
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