 | George Herbert - 1891 - 282 pages
...yet make no good foundation. Sometimes Thou dost divide thy gifts to man, Sometimes unite. The Indian nut alone Is clothing, meat and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail and needle, all in one. Most herbs that grow in brooks are hot and dry. Cold fruit's warm kernels help against the wind. The... | |
 | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1892 - 480 pages
...produces a strong cement. In short, as good George Herbert long ago pithily put it — "... The Indian nut alone Is clothing, meat, and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail, mast, needle, all in one." Well may this grateful Isle adopt the cocoa-palm as the emblem on her coinage... | |
 | Alan Walters - 1892 - 340 pages
...umbrellas, boats, ropes, sails, and many kinds of ornaments. As old George Herbert says — The Indian nut alone Is clothing, meat, and trencher, drink, and can, Boat, cable, sail, mast, needle, all in one. When a native has felled his palm, with its trunk he builds his hut and bullock-stall,... | |
 | Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1892 - 494 pages
...produces a strong cement . . In short, as good George Herbert long ago pithily put it— "... The Indian nut alone Is clothing, meat, and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail, mast, needle, all ill one." Well may this grateful Isle adopt the cocoa-palm as the emblem on her coinage... | |
 | James McKinney Alexander - 1895 - 540 pages
...pandanus trees. The fruits of these trees are the main reliance of the inhabitants for subsistence. " The Indian's nut alone Is clothing, meat and trencher,...and can, Boat, cable, sail and needle, all in one." THE BROOM ROAD, TAHITI. What these islands lack in vegetable productions and attractions of scenery... | |
 | James McKinney Alexander - 1895 - 528 pages
...pandanus trees. The fruits of these trees are the main reliance of the inhabitants for subsistence. " The Indian's nut alone Is clothing, meat and trencher,...and can, Boat, cable, sail and needle, all in one." What these islands lack in vegetable productions and attractions of scenery is in a measure compensated... | |
 | George Herbert - 1913 - 364 pages
...make no good foundation. Sometimes Thou dost divide Thy gifts to man, Sometimes unite ; the Indian nut alone Is clothing, meat and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail, and needle, all in one. Most herbs that grow in brooks are hot and dry, Cold fruits' warm kernells help against the winde ;... | |
 | 1898 - 592 pages
...was who wrote of the coconut palm and its fruit as the " Indian nut alone," which Is clothing, meal and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail and needle, all in one, and one knowing nothing of the uses to which all parts of the tree and its fruit are put would think... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 pages
...make no good foundation. Sometimes thou dost divide thy gifts to man, 115 Sometimes unite. The Indian nut alone Is clothing, meat and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail and needle, all in one. Most herbs that grow in brooks, are hot and dry. Cold fruits warm kernels help against the wind. 130... | |
 | Gordon C. Miller - 1996 - 191 pages
...yet make no good foundation. Sometimes thou dost divide thy gifts to man, Sometimes unite; the Indian nut* alone Is clothing, meat and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail, and needle, all in one. Most herbs that grow in brooks are hot and dry, Cold fruits' warm kernels help against the wind; The... | |
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Sometimes unite; the Indian nut* alone Is clothing, meat and trencher, drink and can, Boat, cable, sail, and needle, all in one. 
