 | William Baxter - 1834 - 348 페이지
...perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds, in constant motion...the least breath of air. It is the sweetest and most nutricious pasture for cattle ; and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindus, in their... | |
 | John Jacob - 1836 - 374 페이지
...their perfect state are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion...and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos in their earliest ages to believe that it was the mansion of a benevolent nymph. Even the Veda... | |
 | Lewis Weston Dillwyn - 1839 - 88 페이지
...perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least breath of air.' This figure is quoted with a query for Paspalum africanum by Poiret. 48. Scleria lithosperma. Willd.... | |
 | 1839 - 786 페이지
...perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds, in constant motion from the least breath of air." Its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos, in their earliest ages, to believe that it... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1845 - 494 페이지
...the perfect state are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear through a lens like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least breath of air. It is tlio sweetest and most nutritious pasture for cattle, and its usefulness added to its beauty induced... | |
 | Fanny Parkes Parlby - 1850 - 654 페이지
...dactylon,) is thus described : — The flowers of dub grass in their perfect state appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion,...and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was the mansion of a benevolent nymph. Even the... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1852 - 108 페이지
...perfect state, are among the loveliest objects of the vegetable world, and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion...and its usefulness, added to its beauty, induced the Hindoos, in their earliest ages, to believe that it was the mansion of a benevolent nymph. Even the... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - 1869 - 430 페이지
...the perfect state are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world, and appear through a lens like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion...usefulness added to its beauty, induced the Hindus in the earliest ages to believe it was the mansion of a benevolent nymph." — (Sir 'W. Jones' Works,... | |
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Rheede has exhibited in a coarse delineation of its leaves only — its flowers, in their perfect state, are among the loveliest objects in the vegetable world ; and appear, through a lens, like minute rubies and emeralds in constant motion from the least... 
