Sylva Britannica Or Portraits of Forest Trees Distinguished for Their Antiqu
Sylva Britannica Or Portraits of Forest Trees Distinguished for Their Antiqu
Jacob George Strutt
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" So it is, " says Evelyn, that great and good man, and most accomplished scholar, whose name it is de- lightful to mention with the respect due to it, in the very outset of a work connected with the Sylvan subjects, which he so much enjoyed and so ably illustrated ; " so it is that our tree, like man, whose inverted symbol he is, being sown in corruption rises in glory, and by little and little ascending into one hard erect stem of comely dimensions, becometh a solid tower, as it were. And tha...t this which but 8 SYLVA BRITANNICA. lately a single ant could easily have borne to his little cavern, should now become capable of resist- ing the fury, and braving the rage of the most im- petuous storms, magni mehercle artificis, dausisse totum in tarn exiguo, et horror est consideranti. " For their preservation Nature has invested the whole tribe and nation, as we may say, of vege- tables, with garments suitable to their naked, and exposed bodies, temper, and climate. Thus some are clad with a coarser skin, and resist all extremes of weather ; others with more tender and delicate skins and scarfs, as it were, and thinner raiment.
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