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Сторінка 60 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Сторінка 296 - He encouraged and advanced legislation to improve the public care of mental illness, and at the time of his death was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Norwalk State Hospital.
Сторінка 150 - Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, and in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences ot Philadelphia from 1852 to I860.
Сторінка 112 - I became acquainted with this young Englishman in Philadelphia several years ago; and observing in him an ardent attachment to, and some knowledge of botany, I omitted no opportunity of fostering his zeal, and of endeavouring to extend his knowledge. He had constant access to my house and the benefit of my botanical books.
Сторінка 115 - Eutland, but not beyond. Discouraged by the lateness of the season, and disheartened — as he had all along been — by the failure and insufficiency of remittances from his patron, Pursh turned back from Rutland on the 22d of September, reached New York on the 1st of October, and Philadelphia on the 5th. The next year (1807) Pursh took charge of the Botanic Garden which Dr. Hosack had formed at New York and afterward sold to the State, which soon made it over to Columbia College.
Сторінка 109 - Observations on some parts of Natural History, to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of An ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America.
Сторінка 56 - We entered into a large hall, where there was a long table full of victuals; at the lowest part sat his Negroes; his hired men were next, then the family and myself; and at the head, the venerable father and his wife presided. Each reclined his head and said his prayers, divested of the tedious cant of some and of the ostentatious style of others. "After the luxuries of our cities," observed he, "this plain fare must appear to thee a severe fast.
Сторінка 156 - ... bore the marks of a vigorous intellect ; his forehead expansive, but his features diminutive, with a small nose, thin lips, and round chin, and with gray eyes under fleshy eyebrows. His complexion was fair, and sometimes very pale from hard labor and want of exercise. His height was above the middle ; his person stout, with a slight stoop ; and his walk peculiar and mincing, resembling that of an Indian.
Сторінка 162 - VEGETABLE MATERIA MEDICA of the United States ; or Medical Botany : containing a Botanical, General, and Medical History of Medicinal Plants, indigenous to the United States ; illustrated by coloured Engravings, made after original Drawings from Nature, done by the Author.
Сторінка 51 - Philadelphia, a happy situation, possessing every soil and exposure adapted to the various nature of vegetables. Here he built, with his own hands, a large and comfortable house of hewn stone, and laid out a garden containing about five acres of ground.