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122 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON,
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Oriental writers indeed , assert be actuall this palm creature to be no mere veget 1 of ating the *
an insensible an imal inherent nature plant warmth , adducing , but ab to ove in all proof other thereof y trees a , that that it appears the partaking cutting to possess off of ;
its head causes it to dieand that not only are there trees of two , Mnds affirm , as even breathing particular creatures trees with have are their of chosen two individu sexes , al but partialities that birds , as , they pair and
names blossom off in nesting acc simultaneousl ordin time g to . its y Among age at some these different peop stages le companion too ., of it its bears , growth as different , and
it every is said part th of at the there tree are is not distinguished less than three by some hundred special words title , so in that the lantall used to
while g Arabic ive expression , according language , in to enlisted less various Gibbon than in , ways thre the the e , native service to hundred that writers of one and thi idea s have p . the uses celebrated , date to - which palm in : and verse no sixty
it prose and its products are applied . As a farther illustration of this feeling who had , it been was related taken to to Eng Sir land John as Malcolm an ayah that and an remained Arab woman here
, for relative some advantages years , on her or disadvantages retam , was eagerl as comp y civilized questioned ared with life as Arabia to our .
Her account of the luxuries and elegances of spread a 3 loud of discontent over the faces of her interrogatorsand they
< , " were when about the returned to retir traveller e , gloomil recalled y brooding them over with Bedouin the remark deficien , " There cies , What is it ?
the everywhere is , however anxious , inquiry the one whole thing . _" They wanting time have I was in no Eng there date land - , trees but . " . " never I looked saw for a sing " them was le
dispersed one . " The , congratulating spell was broken themselves : envy changed on being to so pit much y , and mor the e crowd blest le could
than the Franksand wondering how any peoppossibly exist It in is a country great , marvel where there that were this no tree date should -trees . be regarded with
no kind rather heaven warm ' s feelings special camel in gift its has native to been the clime called inhabitants , for the it seems shi of _j that ) of to the part have desert of been the "
world ; and as _tiie " , so of that the date word -palm the mi store ght of well the be desert termed , furnishing , in the full as it Yankee does all sense the
wanderer Ar necessaries ab life ; . , providin many , Affordin of g drink g e the ither a house comforts of the varied one to , the and or and the settler several delicious other , and with of quality the a forage tent luxuries for for to him the his of
" down self cattle beaut ; offering , a and on warming which food him and it fuel while can ; rest gladdening growing when gazing a his cooling eye over with shade the the arid , and sole plain when shape , where cut of
its most the feathery wilderness y form treasure is alone yet mor of break those e endeared s the sun bar -scorched e by flat its solitude sands association , for this it beacon is with in this the of priceless ,
122 Fruits In Their Season,
122 FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/50/
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