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... appearance : - To the fore part of this plough - body is attached the beam , generally made of wood , which extends in a for- ward direction , and is finished at the end by what is called the plough - head , a contrivance for regulating ...
... appearance : - To the fore part of this plough - body is attached the beam , generally made of wood , which extends in a for- ward direction , and is finished at the end by what is called the plough - head , a contrivance for regulating ...
Page 23
... appearance of its being of equal thickness throughout , for the thick side is uppermost . Bad or infirm ploughmen lean in this way in order to lighten their work , but it is dishonest to do so , and injurious to their master's interests ...
... appearance of its being of equal thickness throughout , for the thick side is uppermost . Bad or infirm ploughmen lean in this way in order to lighten their work , but it is dishonest to do so , and injurious to their master's interests ...
Page 35
... appearance of th the ears infected with it . Now it may seem strange that anything done to the dry grain , before it is laid in the ground , should be able to preserve the young plant from this disease ; but so it is . Although many ...
... appearance of th the ears infected with it . Now it may seem strange that anything done to the dry grain , before it is laid in the ground , should be able to preserve the young plant from this disease ; but so it is . Although many ...
Page 39
... appearance of the crop satisfies the eye , and defies it to trace the particular casts ; in the other every cast made by the sower can be distinctly traced , the seed not being equally spread , but in some places sown too thickly ...
... appearance of the crop satisfies the eye , and defies it to trace the particular casts ; in the other every cast made by the sower can be distinctly traced , the seed not being equally spread , but in some places sown too thickly ...
Page 43
... appearance of being very difficult and complicated . The simplest description of a drill we have met with , is that given by Professor Low , who describes it as generally consisting of a frame - work of wood , placed upon two wheels ...
... appearance of being very difficult and complicated . The simplest description of a drill we have met with , is that given by Professor Low , who describes it as generally consisting of a frame - work of wood , placed upon two wheels ...
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Page 292 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 190 - ... stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olivetree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Page 313 - Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round, Can reach to wound, But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.
Page 200 - Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Page 316 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 316 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
Page 32 - Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 317 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 341 - And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt : get you down thither, and buy for us from thence ; that we may live, and not die.
Page 189 - And steal un'felt the sultry hours away. Behind the master walks, builds up the shocks; And, conscious, glancing oft on every side His sated eye, feels his heart heave with joy. The gleaners spread around, and here and there, Spike after spike, their scanty harvest pick.