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... known at a very early time in the history of mankind ; but it was a much simpler implement than ours . At first it was little more than a stout branch of a tree , from which pro- jected another limb , shortened and pointed ; this being ...
... known at a very early time in the history of mankind ; but it was a much simpler implement than ours . At first it was little more than a stout branch of a tree , from which pro- jected another limb , shortened and pointed ; this being ...
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... known to this day as the Rotherham plough . From this time the progress of improvement was rapid . A man in humble life had the honour of taking the first step in that career of invention and advancement , which from the time of the ...
... known to this day as the Rotherham plough . From this time the progress of improvement was rapid . A man in humble life had the honour of taking the first step in that career of invention and advancement , which from the time of the ...
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... known among farmers as strong loams , or deep hazel moulds , sowing is deferred to a later period , as there is danger on all warm and rich soils of the plants growing up so rapidly as to become weak and spindling . The month of ...
... known among farmers as strong loams , or deep hazel moulds , sowing is deferred to a later period , as there is danger on all warm and rich soils of the plants growing up so rapidly as to become weak and spindling . The month of ...
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... known to employ the drill system , which , among a people so little liable to change , is an argument for its great antiquity . In the Museum of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Edinburgh is a series of models of Hindoo ...
... known to employ the drill system , which , among a people so little liable to change , is an argument for its great antiquity . In the Museum of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Edinburgh is a series of models of Hindoo ...
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... known as the com- mon lever or Suffolk drill . This is adapted for drilling corn over either level ground or ridges , and on all de- scriptions of soil . It is furnished with independent levers , by which the coulters are each readily ...
... known as the com- mon lever or Suffolk drill . This is adapted for drilling corn over either level ground or ridges , and on all de- scriptions of soil . It is furnished with independent levers , by which the coulters are each readily ...
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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.