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Page 89
... English atlas - that of Saxton , of which I possess a beautiful copy from the library of my old friend Mr. Yates Thompson - shows how thickly settled was our countryside in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . Our smallest villages have ...
... English atlas - that of Saxton , of which I possess a beautiful copy from the library of my old friend Mr. Yates Thompson - shows how thickly settled was our countryside in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . Our smallest villages have ...
Page 181
... English garden , new elements of informality , vistas and romance . To Gilbert White with his love for " outlets , " evergreens , and “ annuals in the basons down the field , " the little walled court at Ringmer , survival of the mode ...
... English garden , new elements of informality , vistas and romance . To Gilbert White with his love for " outlets , " evergreens , and “ annuals in the basons down the field , " the little walled court at Ringmer , survival of the mode ...
Page 248
... English literature , had a fine physic garden at Holborn , where he cultivated " near eleven hundred sorts of plants of foreign and domestic growth . " Physic gardens were also established at Oxford and Edinburgh ; and in the year 1673 ...
... English literature , had a fine physic garden at Holborn , where he cultivated " near eleven hundred sorts of plants of foreign and domestic growth . " Physic gardens were also established at Oxford and Edinburgh ; and in the year 1673 ...
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