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HpHESE thoughts he strove to bury in expense, 
Rich meats, rich wines, and vain magnificence. 
-Harte. 
/A LUXURY! thou curs’d by heaven’s decree, 
^How ill-exchang’d are things like these for thee! 
How do thy potions, with insidious joy, 
Diffuse thy pleasures only to destroy! 
TT is a shame that man, that has the seeds 
A Of virtue in him, springing unto glory, 
Should make his soul degenerous with sin, 
And slave to luxury. 
— Goldsmith. 
— Marmyon. 
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Tjj'ELL luxury! more perilous to youth 
Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains. 
— Hannah More. 
XT TAR destroys men, but luxury mankind TAUT just disease to luxury succeeds, 
* v At once corrupts; the body and the mind. And ev’ry death its own avenger breeds. 
— Crozvn. — Pope. 
’OTIS use alone that sanctifies expense, 
A And splendor borrows all her rays from sense. 
— Pope. 
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^UsCllluS tjippocastaiunn. Natural Order: Sapindacece—Soapberry Family. 
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yffJCH admired for its beautiful foliage, the Horse Chestnut 
is mainly cultivated for the shade it affords. Its name in 
HH^our vernacular is an exact translation from the Greek 
of the latter half of the scientific name; and AEsculus, 
__Mrom the Latin esca, food, was originally applied to a spe- 
} ycff cies of oak, and probably to other like trees with edible 
acorns or nuts. The flowers are white, marked with pink and yel¬ 
ls* low. It is of very rapid growth, and reaches the height of thirty 
or forty feet in a few years. The tree is a native of the northern 
part of the Asiatic continent. There is a similar tree, called the 
a LEsculus glabra (smooth), found in Ohio and other western States, 
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I" generally known by the name of Buckeye. The nuts are an irreg- 
b ular, rounded shape, and a rich brown in tint. They are more or 
less injurious to all animals except deer. 
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