The Quarterly Review, Volume 286William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1948 - English literature |
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... trees and gradually adapted themselves to the erect posture without relying on trees . Then the ancestor of man left the trees and took to open country . Evidently , when he first left the shelter of trees for the perilous terra firma ...
... trees and gradually adapted themselves to the erect posture without relying on trees . Then the ancestor of man left the trees and took to open country . Evidently , when he first left the shelter of trees for the perilous terra firma ...
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... trees . * Within more recent times the railways have been among the heaviest consumers of oak ; some French forests suffered in the nineteenth century to provide oak for railway construction . ) 6 Though other utilisations ...
... trees . * Within more recent times the railways have been among the heaviest consumers of oak ; some French forests suffered in the nineteenth century to provide oak for railway construction . ) 6 Though other utilisations ...
Page 387
... trees ' he groans in spirit . ( Yet once more , Does the insular speaker know that the Norway spruce or Christmas tree was here before the Ice Ages but is not an indigenous tree because our islands became separated from the Continent ...
... trees ' he groans in spirit . ( Yet once more , Does the insular speaker know that the Norway spruce or Christmas tree was here before the Ice Ages but is not an indigenous tree because our islands became separated from the Continent ...
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