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... cold plants that will last three or four years , as the violet , strawberry , burnet , prim- rose , and sorrel ; but borage and bugloss , although they seem so like alive , differ in death ; for the borage is an annual , the bugloss ...
... cold plants that will last three or four years , as the violet , strawberry , burnet , prim- rose , and sorrel ; but borage and bugloss , although they seem so like alive , differ in death ; for the borage is an annual , the bugloss ...
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... Cold has of all things the greatest property of drying ; for dryness cannot take place without contrac- tion , and this is the peculiar work of cold . But since men have a very powerful heat in fire , but a very fee- ble degree of cold ...
... Cold has of all things the greatest property of drying ; for dryness cannot take place without contrac- tion , and this is the peculiar work of cold . But since men have a very powerful heat in fire , but a very fee- ble degree of cold ...
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... cold - blooded . Some of them are very voracious , and feed even on their own species . The flesh is softer and less firm than that of land creat- ures ; but they fatten exceedingly , so that an immense quantity of oil is extracted from ...
... cold - blooded . Some of them are very voracious , and feed even on their own species . The flesh is softer and less firm than that of land creat- ures ; but they fatten exceedingly , so that an immense quantity of oil is extracted from ...
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... cold medi- cines ; and this perhaps contributed to his length of life . Tiberius lived to be two years older ; a man ( as Augustus said of him 3 ) of slow jaws , that is , of slow but strong speech ; bloodthirsty , intemperate , and one ...
... cold medi- cines ; and this perhaps contributed to his length of life . Tiberius lived to be two years older ; a man ( as Augustus said of him 3 ) of slow jaws , that is , of slow but strong speech ; bloodthirsty , intemperate , and one ...
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... cold and northern climates than in warm ones . And this must needs be ; for the skin is tighter , the juices of the body less easily dissipated , the spirits less eager to consume and more easily repaired , and the air , as being only ...
... cold and northern climates than in warm ones . And this must needs be ; for the skin is tighter , the juices of the body less easily dissipated , the spirits less eager to consume and more easily repaired , and the air , as being only ...
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