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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Página iii
... better I am pleased with them ; insomuch that I can no where find so great satisfaction as in those useful pursuits . PREFACE . THE following work has been prepared at intervals of time . amid the supervision of a farm ; of moderate ...
... better I am pleased with them ; insomuch that I can no where find so great satisfaction as in those useful pursuits . PREFACE . THE following work has been prepared at intervals of time . amid the supervision of a farm ; of moderate ...
Página iv
... better religion . Thus by degrees they would begin to listen to their teachings on the great subject for which they had mainly been sent . This has been the best way to con- vert the heathen . The author availed himself of the policy ...
... better religion . Thus by degrees they would begin to listen to their teachings on the great subject for which they had mainly been sent . This has been the best way to con- vert the heathen . The author availed himself of the policy ...
Página vii
... better than being rich . Study , then , to be cheerful and contented with thy lot ; DESIGN AND PLAN OF THE WORK . Heaven speed the plough ! Fair Nature's shuttle true ! The farmer is her weaver , and the field Her web and woof ! Long ...
... better than being rich . Study , then , to be cheerful and contented with thy lot ; DESIGN AND PLAN OF THE WORK . Heaven speed the plough ! Fair Nature's shuttle true ! The farmer is her weaver , and the field Her web and woof ! Long ...
Página ix
... better than she had before made ; or suppose the groom should find directions for the better training of a horse , or the preservation of the leather of the harness and carriage ; how much would the community be benefited by such ...
... better than she had before made ; or suppose the groom should find directions for the better training of a horse , or the preservation of the leather of the harness and carriage ; how much would the community be benefited by such ...
Página 24
... better than not to do it at all . The house- keeper may never have seen a book on chemistry ; she may not imagine that she understands an atom of the science ; yet , she duly proportions the materials for making bread - she mixes them ...
... better than not to do it at all . The house- keeper may never have seen a book on chemistry ; she may not imagine that she understands an atom of the science ; yet , she duly proportions the materials for making bread - she mixes them ...
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