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" And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. "
Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Page 75
by George Lillie Craik - 1846
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Favorite Haunts and Rural Studies: Including Visits to Spots of Interest in ...

Edward Jesse - 1847 - 444 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are flowers tenacious of their smells, so that...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, (like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, Jamask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row 15* of them,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 26

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand ; therefore nothing is more fit for that...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." Beneath the windows of his study were planted musk-roses, sweet-briar, wallflowers, and large masses...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18

1849 - 602 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand ; therefore, nothing is more fit for that...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." Beneath the windows of his study were planted musk-roses, sweet-briar, wall-flowers, and large masses...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 77-78

1887 - 994 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of nmsick) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to kuow what be the flowers and plants that do but perfume the air. Roses damask ajid red are flowers...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...music, than in the hand, therefore nothing in n fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowm and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask...in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell, at they grow ; rosemary, little ; nor sweet marjoram. That which above all others yields the sweetest...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in se, that the principal strength of an army consisteth...good infantry, it requireth men bred, not in the rod, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing...
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London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." As late as the year 1754, there was standing, in the gardens of Gray's Inn, an octagonal seat, covered...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...air. Roses, damask and red, are fast • flowers of ' Ribes (Latin name) for currants. 'Rasp (obsolete) fur raspberry. 'Genniling for jenneting. 'Quo1llin...
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Voices of Nature to Her Foster-child, the Soul of Man: A Series of Analogies ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 480 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. That which, above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, especially the white...
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