ISBN: 9781154726992

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...of Aristotle, he is said to have had the profundity of the latter, with the fascinating eloquence of Plato; and Aristotle named him Theophrastus, or the Divine teacher. We read that Attalus Philometor, king of Pergamus, and Hithridates Eupator, of Pontus, vied with each other in establishing gardens for cultivation of poisonous plants and their antidotes; and biography tells us of one of the most fascinating female sovereigns of antiquity being not a little practised in such arts. When Antony was in Egypt, abandoning himself to the guidance of Cleopatra, he feared and distrusted her, and insisted on her tasting viands which she had presented to him. On one occasion, deriding the futility of his precaution, she placed a chaplet on his head, and in the course of the banquet invited him to throw the flowers into his goblet, and quaff them with the wine. When about to pledge her, she abruptly stopped him, and commanded a condemned criminal to swallow the draught. The flowers had been steeped in poison; the wretch fell dead at her feet. The language of Pliny the elder, in his elaborate work on Natural History of Plants, written at tho commencement of this era, is so applicable to our day, that I venture to quote a few lines. He asks Who does not readily admit, that now, when intercommunications have been opened between all parts of the world, thanks to the majestic sway of Rome, civilization and the arts of life have made rapid progress, owing to the interchange of commodities, and the common enjoyment by all of the blessings of peace; whilst at the same time a multitude of objects which formerly lay concealed are now revealed for our indiscriminate use? In our day, in the management of Botanic Gardens, are men who regularly... John Adair, Books, History, Hints On The Culture Of Ornamental Plants In Ireland Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154726992

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...of Aristotle, he is said to have had the profundity of the latter, with the fascinating eloquence of Plato; and Aristotle named him Theophrastus, or the Divine teacher. We read that Attalus Philometor, king of Pergamus, and Hithridates Eupator, of Pontus, vied with each other in establishing gardens for cultivation of poisonous plants and their antidotes; and biography tells us of one of the most fascinating female sovereigns of antiquity being not a little practised in such arts. When Antony was in Egypt, abandoning himself to the guidance of Cleopatra, he feared and distrusted her, and insisted on her tasting viands which she had presented to him. On one occasion, deriding the futility of his precaution, she placed a chaplet on his head, and in the course of the banquet invited him to throw the flowers into his goblet, and quaff them with the wine. When about to pledge her, she abruptly stopped him, and commanded a condemned criminal to swallow the draught. The flowers had been steeped in poison; the wretch fell dead at her feet. The language of Pliny the elder, in his elaborate work on Natural History of Plants, written at tho commencement of this era, is so applicable to our day, that I venture to quote a few lines. He asks Who does not readily admit, that now, when intercommunications have been opened between all parts of the world, thanks to the majestic sway of Rome, civilization and the arts of life have made rapid progress, owing to the interchange of commodities, and the common enjoyment by all of the blessings of peace; whilst at the same time a multitude of objects which formerly lay concealed are now revealed for our indiscriminate use? In our day, in the management of Botanic Gardens, are men who regularly... John Adair, Books, History, Hints On The Culture Of Ornamental Plants In Ireland Books>History <

ISBN: 9781154726992

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