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 EconomyDerby, Miller and Company, 1850 - 654 Seiten |
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... four hundred each ; making , it may be , at the present time , five millions of volumes . Yet , strange to tell , how few of them are particularly suited to the interests of an agricultural community ! True , there are no certain data ...
... four hundred each ; making , it may be , at the present time , five millions of volumes . Yet , strange to tell , how few of them are particularly suited to the interests of an agricultural community ! True , there are no certain data ...
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... four years , what usually occupies them ten or twelve years — and then not well learned— the parents would understand the difference , and would govern themselves accordingly ; they would understand the difference as well as they would ...
... four years , what usually occupies them ten or twelve years — and then not well learned— the parents would understand the difference , and would govern themselves accordingly ; they would understand the difference as well as they would ...
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... four to six ; and , it is believed , making an aver- age of four to each town . These are clergymen , lawyers , and physicians . Suppose , as it often happens , that these gentlemen should uniformly spend their leisure in making ...
... four to six ; and , it is believed , making an aver- age of four to each town . These are clergymen , lawyers , and physicians . Suppose , as it often happens , that these gentlemen should uniformly spend their leisure in making ...
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... four or five daughters to be clothed and ornamented as many city ladies are , will become a bankrupt , unless he has a large net income . Those doing this without a heavy capital , are literally made slaves to sustain the conventional ...
... four or five daughters to be clothed and ornamented as many city ladies are , will become a bankrupt , unless he has a large net income . Those doing this without a heavy capital , are literally made slaves to sustain the conventional ...
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... four or five dollars a week ? Mostly the widows of men once of ample means , but who died insolvent ! Who make the tens of thou- sands of pale - faced , dejected young women , some with death's hectic on the cheek , that work daily in ...
... four or five dollars a week ? Mostly the widows of men once of ample means , but who died insolvent ! Who make the tens of thou- sands of pale - faced , dejected young women , some with death's hectic on the cheek , that work daily in ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...