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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... fire before the wind . Chil- dren from other school districts crowded in ; the committees Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves . the criminal while he hated the crime ; but we , his disciples , too often ...
... fire before the wind . Chil- dren from other school districts crowded in ; the committees Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves . the criminal while he hated the crime ; but we , his disciples , too often ...
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... fires cheerful ? Does any female voice or female step hush the gnawing of the timid mouse or the notes of the unwearied cricket ? Save the one and the other , no sound is heard but that of the tell - tale clock , at last remind- ing him ...
... fires cheerful ? Does any female voice or female step hush the gnawing of the timid mouse or the notes of the unwearied cricket ? Save the one and the other , no sound is heard but that of the tell - tale clock , at last remind- ing him ...
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... By reading we enrich the mind , by conversation we polish it . unmanly . Fire them with ambition to be useful . Make them to disdain to be destitute of any useful knowledge . Human life is a perpetual delusion - nothing goes on.
... By reading we enrich the mind , by conversation we polish it . unmanly . Fire them with ambition to be useful . Make them to disdain to be destitute of any useful knowledge . Human life is a perpetual delusion - nothing goes on.
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... , so that with little you may be content . putrid water and tainted meat . Charcoal fires are dangerous in close apartments , for the oxygen is combined or fixed by it . Gold is the heaviest of all known bodies , platina.
... , so that with little you may be content . putrid water and tainted meat . Charcoal fires are dangerous in close apartments , for the oxygen is combined or fixed by it . Gold is the heaviest of all known bodies , platina.
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... of Mean fortunes and proud spirits are like fuel and fire . ounces are supposed sufficient to gild a silver wire equal in length to the whole circumference of the earth . This proportion , however , varies according to the abun-
... of Mean fortunes and proud spirits are like fuel and fire . ounces are supposed sufficient to gild a silver wire equal in length to the whole circumference of the earth . This proportion , however , varies according to the abun-
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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...