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"The is an evergreen shrub, with fine glossy leaves: the honey-breathing blossoms, as Evelyn terms them, come out in M…"

"... queen Elizabeth ... is said to have planted an with her own hand at , in which she was brought up when an infant.…"

"The , from the esculent quality of the s, which, in times of scarcity, are frequently eaten by the poor in the south …"

"says that the gum-resin, called ', is supposed to be the incense formerly used by the ancients in their religious cer…"

"The is most appropriately named, for, in addition to the pensive drooping appearance of its branches, it is common to…"

"Bess Kent is an enigmatic figure. We know she wrote voluminous letters, in which she laid her heart bare, but few hav…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."