The Farmer's Every-day Book: Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country: with the Popular Elements of Practical and Theoretical Agriculture, and Twelve Hundred Laconics and Apothegms Relating to Ethics, Religion, and General Literature; Also Five Hundred Receipts on Hygeian, Domestic, and Rural Economy |
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... feet and legs in their appropriate functions ? Surely not . Would the hands and fingers ever present such wonderful exhibitions of skill in embroidery , in painting , and in music , without previous instruc- tion ? Surely not ! It is ...
... feet and legs in their appropriate functions ? Surely not . Would the hands and fingers ever present such wonderful exhibitions of skill in embroidery , in painting , and in music , without previous instruc- tion ? Surely not ! It is ...
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... feet . Now , my young friends , when brooding with seeming dis- content over the monotonous destinies of rural life , and aspiring after something more stirring - more dazzling - more satisfying , let me entreat you to look upon the ...
... feet . Now , my young friends , when brooding with seeming dis- content over the monotonous destinies of rural life , and aspiring after something more stirring - more dazzling - more satisfying , let me entreat you to look upon the ...
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... feet in diameter revolve a hundred times in a minute , and what force could bind its parts togeth- er ? Its centrifugal tendency would be irresistible . Hence , in Of all enemies of idleness , want is the most formidable . wells ; Etna ...
... feet in diameter revolve a hundred times in a minute , and what force could bind its parts togeth- er ? Its centrifugal tendency would be irresistible . Hence , in Of all enemies of idleness , want is the most formidable . wells ; Etna ...
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... , live so that nobody will believe them . On being run together , or condensed into drops by the influence of cohesive attraction , they fall by their weight , and are called rain . The annual average of rain is about three feet in.
... , live so that nobody will believe them . On being run together , or condensed into drops by the influence of cohesive attraction , they fall by their weight , and are called rain . The annual average of rain is about three feet in.
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... feet in depth , to the whole surface of the earth . This quantity is not very equally divided . It is most abundant in tropical regions , and decreases in propor- AGRICULTURAL WEALTH . Cowper says of labor - ' Tis the primal curse , But ...
... feet in depth , to the whole surface of the earth . This quantity is not very equally divided . It is most abundant in tropical regions , and decreases in propor- AGRICULTURAL WEALTH . Cowper says of labor - ' Tis the primal curse , But ...
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Page 385 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 97 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 303 - No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear ; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Compared with this, how poor Religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart...
Page 54 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 48 - Unmixed with drops of bitter, which neglect Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup ; Thou art the nurse of virtue. In thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heaven-born and destined to the skies again.
Page 228 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven...
Page 316 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Page 284 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 186 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves...
Page 91 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...