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...One of the great collectors of eastern plants was Augustine Henry, an Irishman who introduced the wonderful orange-flowered lily, Lilium henryi, from the mountains of central China....
...He was named after St Augustine, the subject of one of my books. He had his bedroom decorated with a superb picture of Alexander the Great, the subject of another....
...Read Robin Lane Fox’s gardening column here Illustration by: Luke Waller...
...It is a profound understatement to observe that it was appropriate for Robin Lane Fox, at last, to tackle a biography of Augustine....
...As ICIT fittingly observe: This approach is similar to 1500s Robin Hood-esque bandits along the road or 1920s mobsters....
...St Monica was the celebrated mother of Augustine on whom I have just published a long-considered book....
...Robin Lane Fox’s ‘Augustine: Conversions and Confessions’ (Allen Lane, £30) was published last month Photographs: Jason Ingram; Clay Perry...
...Robin Lane Fox’s latest book ‘Augustine: Conversions and Confessions’ was published this week, Allen Lane, £30 Photographs: Tate Photography; Mike Hill/Getty Images...
...Paul Mason, for example, channels St Augustine: give me democracy, but not yet — not, that is, until an electoral majority agrees with me....
...However, I have just finished writing a big book about his model as a confessor — St Augustine, bishop of Hippo in north Africa....
...Robin Lane Fox is the FT’s gardening correspondent. His new book, ‘Augustine: Conversions and Confessions’, will be published in 2015 Photographs: Fred Holmes; Painshill...
...Benedict was a distinguished scholar of Augustine, but he grunted and muttered in German, “a very important work”. The book was promptly diverted to a shelf in the Vatican library....
...Robin Lane Fox’s ‘Thoughtful Gardening’ (£25, Particular Books) has been reprinted for Christmas...
...So when he speaks of the Commedia as a confessional poem, Wilson does not mean that Dante “bares all” – but rather, like St Augustine, that he confesses there to be truths which neither his nor any other...
...We’re working our way through the Fed’s data dump but our crack coding team have extracted enough that we have a sense of the big users of the discount window, writes the FT’s Robin Harding....
...I rule out the Garden of Eden as it is not in the world any longer and you might not agree with St Augustine that Adam and Eve enjoyed sexual love among its flowers....
...As we pedalled back through a rain shower to St Augustine and his Confessions there was one question in my mind. Do the Dutch have badgers?...
...One shows St Augustine, the other St Michael in spectacular golden armour, his hair literally on fire with divine inspiration....
...Based in a building next to the 18th-century Jesuit mission in St Augustine’s Square, BDA is one of a handful of tightly controlled Macao banks, including Tai Fung Bank, run by the family of Edmund Ho, Macao...
...For generations the Walpole family planted intelligently, advised by the great names of gardening, from Augustine Henry, introducer of everything called "henryi", to our own E.A. Bowles....
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