 What a shame, said my mind, or something that inspired my mind, that thee shouldst have employed so many years in tilling the earth, and destroying so many flowers and plants, without being acquainted with their structures and their uses!  Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall - Page 53by William Darlington - 1849 - 585 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1845 - 632 pages
...language : ' What a shame,' said my mind, or something that inspired my mind, ' that thee should*! have employed so many years in tilling the earth,...flowers and plants, without being acquainted with their structure and their uses !' This seeming inspiration suddenly awakened my curiosity, for these were... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1864 - 478 pages
...inspired my mind," observed the latter, in explaining the first impulse to his career, " ' that thou shouldst have employed so many years in tilling the...flowers and plants, without being acquainted with their structure and their uses.' By steady application," he added, " for several years, I have acquired a... | |
 | 1867 - 334 pages
...horizontal. ' What a shame, said my mind, or something that inspired my mind, that thou shouldst ha\>e employed so many years in tilling the earth, and destroying so many Jlowers and plants, without being acquainted ivilh their structure and their uses J' This seeming inspiration... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1894 - 822 pages
...ponntry farmers are wont to do, and observed therein very many distinct parts, some perpendicular and some horizontal. ' What a shame,' said my mind, or...being acquainted with their structures and their uses I ' I returned to my team, but this new desire did not quit my mind." Crevecœnr, the author of the... | |
 | 1894 - 676 pages
...something that inspired my mind, that thee shouldst have employed so many years in tilling t Inearth, and destroying so many flowers and plants, without being acquainted with their structures and th'ir uses! I returned to mv team, but this new desire did not quit my mind. Genial old John continued... | |
 | 1894 - 544 pages
...country farmers are wont to / do, and observed therein very many distinct parts, some perpendicular and some horizontal. What a shame, said my mind, or something...without being acquainted with their structures and th'ir uses ! I returned to mv team, but this new desire did not quit my mind. Genial old John continued... | |
 | 1894 - 546 pages
...country farmers are wont to do, and observed therein very many distinct parts, some perpendicular and some horizontal. What a shame, said my mind, or something...without being acquainted with their structures and thMr uses ! I returned to mv team, but this new desire did not quit my mind. Genial old John continued... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1897 - 316 pages
...many distinct parts. ' What a shame/ said my mind, or something that inspired my mind, ' that thou shouldst have employed so many years in tilling the...flowers and plants without being acquainted with their structure and their uses ! ' " He took his horses to the barn, and, against his good wife's wish, went... | |
 | John William Harshberger - 1899 - 584 pages
...ignorance of the common things about him. "What a shame it is," said he to himself, "that I should have employed so many years in tilling the earth,...flowers and plants without being acquainted with their structure and their uses! " In relating the events of this day, he would declare his inability to account... | |
 | Joel Cook - 1900 - 558 pages
...many distinct parts. ' What a shame,' said my mind, or something that inspired my mind, ' that tliou shouldst have employed so many years in tilling the...flowers and plants without being acquainted with their structure and their uses.' " He put up his horses at once, and went to the city and bought a botany... | |
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