 | Vermont. State Board of Agriculture - 1884 - 454 pages
...as Irving says, " 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... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...that there are some in England which enjoy very extensive celebrity 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... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 840 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...vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sous of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is,... | |
 | 1885 - 198 pages
...turned to dust. THEEE 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 have this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeurof thought connected with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 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... | |
 | Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 162 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1887 - 952 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... | |
 | Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1887 - 700 pages
...was written by Washington Irving: "There is something noble, simple and pure in a taste for trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to...a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is worthy of liberal, and free-born, and aspiring men. He who plants an oak looks... | |
 | Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 164 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... | |
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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... 
