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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... portion of it to be constructed of wood . Or , if he were not to furnish glass , it is apparent he could have no windows . This may appear simple , and almost childish . It is indeed so . But let it be applied to one of the first ...
... portion of it to be constructed of wood . Or , if he were not to furnish glass , it is apparent he could have no windows . This may appear simple , and almost childish . It is indeed so . But let it be applied to one of the first ...
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... portion of our work , I will introduce a chapter on education . This may be judged an incident suitable for an appendix , rather than a leading article for so prominent a place . But it should be kept in mind that most farmers have ...
... portion of our work , I will introduce a chapter on education . This may be judged an incident suitable for an appendix , rather than a leading article for so prominent a place . But it should be kept in mind that most farmers have ...
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... portion of the community be well educated . Here we have no privileged orders ; no hereditary distinctions of rank . The ad- ministration of our government is open to all . Its excellence and its perpetuity will depend on the purity and ...
... portion of the community be well educated . Here we have no privileged orders ; no hereditary distinctions of rank . The ad- ministration of our government is open to all . Its excellence and its perpetuity will depend on the purity and ...
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... portion of the graduates has been from this part of our population . It is believed , nevertheless , that it is very large ; perhaps three- fourths or seven - eighths . If so , the instruction given in them should be substantially ...
... portion of the graduates has been from this part of our population . It is believed , nevertheless , that it is very large ; perhaps three- fourths or seven - eighths . If so , the instruction given in them should be substantially ...
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... portion of the expenses of their education . Some , destitute of other pecuniary means , might contrive entirely to support themselves when thus at college . Thus a way would be opened for thousands of young men , now unable to obtain a ...
... portion of the expenses of their education . Some , destitute of other pecuniary means , might contrive entirely to support themselves when thus at college . Thus a way would be opened for thousands of young men , now unable to obtain a ...
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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...