 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - 1875 - 292 pages
...simple and pure in such a taste for trees. It argues a sweet and generous nature to have this strong friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is the heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of liberal and free-born and aspiring... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1875 - 302 pages
...simple and pure in such a taste for trees. It argues a sweet and generous nature to have this strong friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is the heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of liberal and free-born and aspiring... | |
 | Popular educator - 1876 - 854 pages
...and generous nature, to have a strong relish for tho beauties of vegetation, and a friendship (or tbe hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is worthy of Hberal, and freebom, and aspiring men. Ни who plants an oak looks... | |
 | Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1878 - 50 pages
...simple and pure in such a taste for trees. It argues a sweet and generous nature to have this strong friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a serene majesty in woodland scenery that enters into the soul, dilates and elevates it, and fills it... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...delightful in every succeeding year than they did in the foregoing. Addison, Spectator. No. 583. PLANTING. THERE is something nobly simple and pure in such a...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of... | |
 | Birdsey Grant Northrup - 1880 - 66 pages
...simple and pure in such a taste for trees. It argues a sweet and generous nature to have this strong friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a serene majesty in woodland scenery that enters into the soul, dilates and elevates it, and fills it... | |
 | Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1880 - 134 pages
...simple and pure in such a taste for trees. It argues a sweet and generous nature to have this strong friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a serene majesty in woodland scenery that enters into the soul, dilates and elevates it, and fills it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 572 pages
...England which enjoy very extensive celebrity among tree-fanciers from being perfect in their kind. There is something nobly simple and pure in such a...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of... | |
 | John Bradley Peaslee - 1884 - 76 pages
...WASHINGTON IRVING. THERE is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of husbandry. It is worthy of... | |
 | 1889 - 454 pages
...Fourth pupil : "There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy.. * * * He 'who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity.... | |
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There is something nobly simple and pure in such a taste : it argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur... 
