| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1780 - 504 pages
...the fquares and oblongs, and firait lines of our anceftors. An artificial perpendicular rock ilarting out of a flat plain, and connected with nothing, often...pierced through in various places with oval hollows, haa no more pretenfion to be deemed natural than a lineal terras or a parterre. The late Mr. Jofeph... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1785 - 698 pages
...the fquares and oblongs and ftrait lines of our ancettors. An artificial perpendicular rock Parting out of a flat plain, and connected with nothing, often...through in various places with oval hollows, has no more pretenfion to be deemed natural than a lineal terrafs or a parterre. The late Mr. Jpfeph Spence, who... | |
| Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...oblongs and ftrait lines of our anceftors. An artificial perpendicular rock ftarting out of a Hat p|ain, and connected with nothing, often pierced through in various places with oval hollows, has no. more pretenfipn to be deemed natural than a lineal terrafs or a parterre. The late Mr. Jofeph Spence, who... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 762 pages
...the fquares and oblongs, and (trait lines of our ancertors. An artificial perpendicular rock darting out of a flat plain, and connected with nothing, often...through in various places with oval hollows, has no more pretenfion to be deemed natural than a lineal terrafs or a parterre. The late Mr. Jofeph Spence, who... | |
| History - 1788 - 734 pages
...lines, of our anceflors. An artific:al perpendicular rock Darting out of a flat plain, and conneded with nothing, often pierced through in various places with oval hollows, has no more pretenfion to be deemed natural than a lineal terrais or a parterre,. The lat¿ Mr. Jofeph Spence,... | |
| English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...anceftors. An artificial perpendicular rock ftarting out of a flat plain, and connected with Bothing, often pierced through in various places with oval hollows, has no more prittnfion to be deemed natural, than a lineal terras or a parterre. The la;e Mr J'jfcph Spence, who... | |
| William Marshall - 1796 - 486 pages
...oblongs, and ftraight lines of our ' ar.ceftors. * anceftors. An artificial perpendicular rock, * flatting out of a flat plain, and connected with * nothing,...in various places, ' with oval hollows, has no more pretenfion to be * deemed natural, than a lineal terrace, or a parterre. f The late Mr. Jofeph Spence,... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Agriculture - 1796 - 460 pages
...oblongs, and ftraight lines of our * arceftors. * anceftors. An artificial perpendicular rock, ' ftarting out of a flat plain, and connected with ' nothing,...in various places, ' with oval hollows, has no more pretenfion to be * deemed natural, than a lineal terrace, or a parterre. ' The late Mr. Jofcph Spence,... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...are forinnlly uniform and unvaried : — but with regard to nature, it seems as much avoided as iu the squares and oblongs and straight lines of our ancestors. An artificial perpendicular rork starling; out of a flat plain, and connected with nothing, often pierced through in various placen... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...oblongs and flraigiit lines of our anceftors. An artificial per* pendicular rock ftarting out of a Bat plain, and connected with nothing, often pierced through' in various places with oval hollows, has no more pretenfion to be deemed natural than a lineal terrace or a part. rre. The hte Mr Jofeph Spence, who... | |
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