["Whether the heat opens more passages and secret pores through which … — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

["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.]

Place: CHAPTER XI · ¶4978
License: Public domain · Source
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