 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1830 - 526 pagine
...rose-bush, than for the rarest plant from New Holland or the Cape of Good Hope, and as to the poor artizan of the French capital, he only thinks of vegetable...itself cannot compare with London for extent or wealth. If the French pave the squares of their city that they may afford a more agreeable promenade, the English... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pagine
...rose-bush, than for the rarest plant from New Holland or the Cape of Good Hope ; and as to the poor artizan of the French capital, he only thinks of vegetable...London, though it is much smaller and more poorly slocked ; as the French capital itself cannot compare with London for extent or wealth. If the French... | |
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Frenchman, who values all objects only as they please the eye, without reference to their being common -or searce, is willing to pay a greater price for a lovely rose-bush, than for the rarest plant from New Holland or the Cape of Good Hope, and as to... 