 | Richard Buxton - Botany - 1849 - 200 pages
...often so sudden as to throw the object out of the field of view. W. 979" Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when flrese are passed away." POPE'S "Homer." MTJSCL* DIVISION I. SCHISTOCABPI. 1. ANDREA. l.'A. RUPESTRis.... | |
 | Joseph Jones - 1849 - 370 pages
...we see a fading plant ? Of our own mortality. Quote a passage of Homer. " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; I. VEGETABLE STRUCTURE. In our examination of the Vegetable Kingdom, I shall 1. direct you to observe... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1849 - 650 pages
...О/*: IX. Z. Иб. " Like leaves on trees the race of men are found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another race, the following spring...their course decay, So flourish these, when those have passed away.'1 We hope to be forgiven for making this digression : but to return : — Besides... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1849 - 654 pages
...Op: IX. Z. 146. " Like leaves on trees the race of men lire found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground, Another race, the following spring...their course decay, So flourish these, when those huve passed away." We hope to be forgiven for making this digression : but to return : — Besides... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...devil and all his works. .•2 I I I 1 HINTS ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...decay, So flourish these when those are pass'd away. IP there is any one thing in human economy of more importance than everything'else, it is the preservation... | |
 | William Hamilton (of Bangour) - 1850 - 238 pages
...whence I am, or who my sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth.... | |
 | William Hamilton - 1850 - 242 pages
...whence I am, or who my sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth.... | |
 | William Hamilton, James Paterson - English poetry - 1850 - 248 pages
...whence I am, or who my sire, ( Replied the chief) can Tydeus' son inquire? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that nils the spacious earth.... | |
 | William Hamilton, James Paterson - 1850 - 238 pages
...whence I am, or who my sire, (Replied the chief) can Tydeus' sou inquire? Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering...their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. But if thou still persist to search my birth, Then hear a tale that fills the spacious earth.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1863 - 896 pages
...Thus, the <! blind old manofScio's rocky Isle," in his day moralized : "Like leaves on the trees the race of man is found. Now green in youth, now withering...So generations in their course decay, So flourish those when those are passed away." So too, in the Bible, we are warned that '• wo all do fade as... | |
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these when those... 
