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FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON. . 39
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T. Pacts And Fictions Co^Stceening Pigs....
tree Sole is p tli lant e first which vegetable we know production to liave nourished specificall in y mentioned Paradise , the in fi the gdand the of Life
records of creationfor the Tree of Knowlege Tree were the scope existences of botanical of too , sup disquisition ernatural , or an to order be the submitted to estimation be reckoned to in the as which identi within it
fication of a Linnaeus or a Jussien . Of was fact the Israelites that held it by being the concerning descendants " no place the desert of of figs Abraham into " was which one we Moses grand may jud had comp ge led laint by them the of ;
ing that a " similar the fig- p tree lace shall in a not list blossom of national " indicated calamities of a misfortune Auld to which Robin the occupy _" lift-
ing" of the cow did in the domestic disasters Gray ' s beloved ; and that the spot dweller overshadowe in Judea d by " just his what own fig his -tree , "
fireside seems in Asia to " but is have now also been to on an , both to Eng the the lishman European . Probabl and y the , , indi African genous " shores not onl own of y nations of anti
the Mediterraneanit was known to most of the quity , called though into the existence Athenians , in nattered their _coimtry themselves and for that their it benefit had , been affirming first
that as a it recompense was originall for y the presented hospitality by Ceres with , to which their compatriot in he the had centre entertained Phy of talus the ,
public that goddess square ; at and Athens it was , and according considered ly pl to anted divine hallow a the - tre spot e should whereon be it Unwilling that the fruit of so
grew . strictl degraded forbidden to the level a iece of of barbarian protectionism palates which , its naturall exportation y gave was rise ; p
forth to a race a y race of of smugg excisemen lers , who desi in gnated their from turn , the equall special y naturall nature y of , called their
the occupation word , sy 7 w hant _pTian which tai , , or in discoverers our language , of Ji gs , meant a name ori perpetuated ginally tale in
liar bearer rather , and sycop which than the is , still mere used flatterer by the signified French by to the denote modern a cheat use or of
p the the lant , _ihxe term became fi . Nor of a fruitful was Athens this source which the onl of temp y evil way , ted , for in Xerxes which it was the said to undertake goddess to have -g been iven the
invasion of gs Greece . In Lacedemoniait seems that even the luxurydeliciousness condemning L , p ycur erhap gus s lo on oked the tenderl ground y , upon of its this wholesomeness fruit ; pardoning , for we its monthlto the
two public find pounds that dining the and - few hall a , items half as his he of share bade figs of . each the The common S Athlete partan consump , send too ade , following it tion their , y include the le d
traditionary introduced article of the legendary of food in examp its while tale stead le " th in of . at At tr their the aining Home wolf patron , it " -suckled until becam Hercules , in e twins a later sacred , m days had symbol , been a fieshdiet first on account stap found was
reposing were accustome under a d fig to -tree offer ; andbeneathits an annual sacrifice shade , therefore to the , shep the Romans herdess Saturnto whom
who had discovered and reared their founder . ,
Fruits In Their Season. . 39
FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON . . 39
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/39/
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