 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 700 pages
...continuous chronicles amongst the most authentic that have been handed down by mankind.1 THE SACRED BO TREE. Compared with it the Oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling...half its years. The yew-trees of Fountains Abbey are 1 A chronological series of historical passages iu which the prolonged existence of the sncred tree... | |
 | sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...chronicles amongst the most authentic that have been handed down bv mankind.1 v. TEE SAC L;ED BO TRF.F.. Compared with it the Oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling...numbers half its years. The yew-trees of Fountains Abbey arc 1 A chronological scries of historical pnsnajres in which the prolonged existence of flip sacred... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...that have been handed down by mankind.1 THE SACRED BO-TREE. Compared with it the Oak of Ellei-slie is but a sapling ; and the Conqueror's Oak in Windsor...half its years. The yew-trees of Fountains Abbey are has been recorded, will be found in a note appended to this chapter. believed to have flourished there... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 746 pages
...amongst the most authentic that have been handed down bv mankind. Compared with it the Oak of Ellershe is but a sapling ; and the Conqueror's Oak in Windsor...half its years. The yew-trees of Fountains Abbey are 1 A chronological series of historical passages in which the prolonged existence of the snored tree... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Biography - 1861 - 400 pages
...a series of continuous chronicles amongst the most authentic that have been handed down by mankind. Compared with it the Oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling...years. The yewtrees of Fountains Abbey are believed to have flourished there 1200 years ago ; the olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full-grown when... | |
 | E. A. R. - 1862 - 376 pages
...a series of continuous chronicles amongst the most authentic that have been handed down by mankind. Compared with it, the Oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling...Windsor Forest barely numbers half its years. The Yew trees of Fountain's Abbey are believed to have flourished there twelve hundred years ago. The Olives... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1862 - 582 pages
...a series of continuous chronicles amongst the most authentic that have been handed down by mankind. Compared with it the oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling, and the Conqueror's Oak in Windsor forests barely numbers half its years. The yew trees of Fountains Abbey are believed to have flourished... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - Iceland - 1876 - 554 pages
...now, stands in the year 288 before Christ. It is, consequently, at the present date, 2162 years old. " Compared with it the oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling,...Forest barely numbers half its years. The Yew-trees of Fountain's Abbey are believed to have flourished there twelve hundred years ago ; the Olives in the... | |
 | Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall - Idolatry - 1883 - 830 pages
...a series of continuous chronicles, among the most authentic that have been handed down to mankind. Compared with it, the Oak of Ellerslie is but a sapling,...Windsor Forest barely numbers half its years. The yew trees of Fountain's Abbey are believed to have flourished there 1,200 years ago ; the olives in... | |
 | Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall - Idols and images - 1883 - 832 pages
...a series of continuous chronicles, among the most authentic that have been handed down to mankind. Compared •with it, the Oak of Ellerslie is but a...Windsor Forest barely numbers half its years. The yew trees of Fountain's Abbey are believed to have flourished there 1,200years ago; the olives in the... | |
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Abbey are believed to have flourished there twelve hundred years ago; the olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem; and the cypress of... 
