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 páginas |
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... cultivated . Each will be interested and benefited in finding what relates to his own occupation or interests , while all will have also a vast amount of facts , and hints , and directions , bene- ficial to the general interests of ...
... cultivated . Each will be interested and benefited in finding what relates to his own occupation or interests , while all will have also a vast amount of facts , and hints , and directions , bene- ficial to the general interests of ...
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... cultivation ; and those fields improve Your erring fathers have too long despised ; Turn to that science , which in ancient times The mind of sages and of kings employed , Solicitous to learn the ways of God , And read his works in ...
... cultivation ; and those fields improve Your erring fathers have too long despised ; Turn to that science , which in ancient times The mind of sages and of kings employed , Solicitous to learn the ways of God , And read his works in ...
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... cultivation of the ground fir more productive than it has hitherto been ; and consequently , in the estimation of the world , far more honorable . Let there be among the sons of farmers , in cultivating the land , the same enlightened ...
... cultivation of the ground fir more productive than it has hitherto been ; and consequently , in the estimation of the world , far more honorable . Let there be among the sons of farmers , in cultivating the land , the same enlightened ...
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... cultivated and made to produce the fruits needed for animal sustenance , will be overgrown with weeds . The mind is as easily made active and vigorous , leading its possessor to honor and competence , if not in all cases to affluence ...
... cultivated and made to produce the fruits needed for animal sustenance , will be overgrown with weeds . The mind is as easily made active and vigorous , leading its possessor to honor and competence , if not in all cases to affluence ...
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... cultivated , but , year after year , becoming more and more exhausted of their native energies , till the crops became correspondingly deficient . The result was so gradual , that it excited no inquiry ; and it was not , perhaps ...
... cultivated , but , year after year , becoming more and more exhausted of their native energies , till the crops became correspondingly deficient . The result was so gradual , that it excited no inquiry ; and it was not , perhaps ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...