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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Seite 85
... Sugar , valued at 22,995,000 pounds of Honey , valued at 13,000,000 gallons of Molasses , valued at 25,000,000 bushels of Beans , valued at 20,000,000 bushels of Peas , valued at $ 388,000,000 140,000,000 56,000,000 120,000,000 ...
... Sugar , valued at 22,995,000 pounds of Honey , valued at 13,000,000 gallons of Molasses , valued at 25,000,000 bushels of Beans , valued at 20,000,000 bushels of Peas , valued at $ 388,000,000 140,000,000 56,000,000 120,000,000 ...
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... sugar and tea ; O no - for such properties wondrous had they , That qualities , feelings , and thoughts they would weigh ; Together with articles small or immense , From mountains or planets , to atoms of sense . Naught was there so ...
... sugar and tea ; O no - for such properties wondrous had they , That qualities , feelings , and thoughts they would weigh ; Together with articles small or immense , From mountains or planets , to atoms of sense . Naught was there so ...
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... sugar is to molasses sugar ; and there is also about the same difference between the vegetables found on his table , and those found on the tables supplied by hucksters . It is possible that the word placed at the head of this chap- ter ...
... sugar is to molasses sugar ; and there is also about the same difference between the vegetables found on his table , and those found on the tables supplied by hucksters . It is possible that the word placed at the head of this chap- ter ...
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... sugar , tea , coffee , molasses and the like , fifteen or twenty dol- lars , to be paid , as convenient , in eggs or day - labor . True , in the sequel it will appear that the practice of getting in debt is bad ; but such was the ...
... sugar , tea , coffee , molasses and the like , fifteen or twenty dol- lars , to be paid , as convenient , in eggs or day - labor . True , in the sequel it will appear that the practice of getting in debt is bad ; but such was the ...
Seite 299
... sugar from the maple- grove just in front of the house . Such fare the traveler fre- quently finds among those early settlers about the spurs of the Alleghanies ; although it is equally true , that he also has to share in less desirable ...
... sugar from the maple- grove just in front of the house . Such fare the traveler fre- quently finds among those early settlers about the spurs of the Alleghanies ; although it is equally true , that he also has to share in less desirable ...
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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...