"Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty……" — John Evelyn
"Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned."
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John Evelyn
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12 Quotes by John Evelyn
John Evelyn has 12 quotes on this site.
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious…
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares…
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do…
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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
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A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding…
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The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the…
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Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an…
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
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I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable…
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