Sketches of rural affairsSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1848 - 371 pages |
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Page 22
... raised , or the draught - bolt regulated so as to give more earth . In the same way , if the furrow - slice be too narrow , the ploughman , by leaning to the right , or setting the draught - bolt that way , gives the plough more land ...
... raised , or the draught - bolt regulated so as to give more earth . In the same way , if the furrow - slice be too narrow , the ploughman , by leaning to the right , or setting the draught - bolt that way , gives the plough more land ...
Page 48
... raising the plants along with the soil , they are exposed on the surface after the frozen earth has subsided , on being thawed in the sunshine . This can only happen , however , when a considerable quantity of moisture exists under the ...
... raising the plants along with the soil , they are exposed on the surface after the frozen earth has subsided , on being thawed in the sunshine . This can only happen , however , when a considerable quantity of moisture exists under the ...
Page 49
... raised up by means of the expanded condition of the ice , suddenly contracts by its melting , leaving the plants with their roots half drawn out of the earth , in which state many perish . " When we consider the frequent changes of our ...
... raised up by means of the expanded condition of the ice , suddenly contracts by its melting , leaving the plants with their roots half drawn out of the earth , in which state many perish . " When we consider the frequent changes of our ...
Page 54
... raise a supply . The land designed for turnips should be carefully pre- pared , and plentifully manured . It is broken up in the autumn , immediately after harvest , and left to have all the benefit of the frost , which tends to make it ...
... raise a supply . The land designed for turnips should be carefully pre- pared , and plentifully manured . It is broken up in the autumn , immediately after harvest , and left to have all the benefit of the frost , which tends to make it ...
Page 57
... raise them from the seed contained in the apples which grow upon the stalk . Ripe apples from a healthy plant are for this purpose chosen , and set apart in sand during winter . In April the seed is picked out and sown in rich garden ...
... raise them from the seed contained in the apples which grow upon the stalk . Ripe apples from a healthy plant are for this purpose chosen , and set apart in sand during winter . In April the seed is picked out and sown in rich garden ...
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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.