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... harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night , shall not cease . " - GENESIS viii . 22 . PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION , APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR ...
... harvest , and cold and heat , and summer and winter , and day and night , shall not cease . " - GENESIS viii . 22 . PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION , APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR ...
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... - draining . 334 176. Auger 336 177 . Punch · 336 178 . Jumper . 336 179. APPENDIX . Frontispiece - Dantzic 340 180 . Odessa 350 181 . The Maize - harvest 358 B HPRIOR PLOUGHING . J.W. WHIMFER . THE PLOUGH ་་་ xii ILLUSTRATIONS . 315.
... - draining . 334 176. Auger 336 177 . Punch · 336 178 . Jumper . 336 179. APPENDIX . Frontispiece - Dantzic 340 180 . Odessa 350 181 . The Maize - harvest 358 B HPRIOR PLOUGHING . J.W. WHIMFER . THE PLOUGH ་་་ xii ILLUSTRATIONS . 315.
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... sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest , and have nothing . " ( Prov . xx . 4. ) The ploughman's task is an honourable one . When the importance of a ploughman's duties are well con- sidered.
... sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest , and have nothing . " ( Prov . xx . 4. ) The ploughman's task is an honourable one . When the importance of a ploughman's duties are well con- sidered.
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... harvest , cold and heat , summer and winter shall not cease . " There are , indeed , years of comparative scarcity , when the earth does not yield her full increase , but there are also years of great abundance and plenty , when the ...
... harvest , cold and heat , summer and winter shall not cease . " There are , indeed , years of comparative scarcity , when the earth does not yield her full increase , but there are also years of great abundance and plenty , when the ...
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Sketches. WHEAT LAND . 33 No sooner has the cheerful sound of harvest - home an- nounced the close of one year's labours , than the farmer immediately begins to prepare for the next . " Cease- less , " indeed , is the " round of rural ...
Sketches. WHEAT LAND . 33 No sooner has the cheerful sound of harvest - home an- nounced the close of one year's labours , than the farmer immediately begins to prepare for the next . " Cease- less , " indeed , is the " round of rural ...
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Page 270 - 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 291 - O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. 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 168 - ... 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 266 - And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up: and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 49 - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold ; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.
Page 116 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 178 - 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 294 - 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 294 - 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 18 - 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.