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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 55 words
Whether the heat opens more passages and secret pores through which the sap may be derived into the new born herbs; or whether it rather hardens and binds the gaping veins that the small showers and keen influence of the violent sun or penetrating cold of Boreas may not hurt them. Virg., Georg., i. 89.
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