Sketches of rural affairsSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1848 - 371 pages |
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... taken to give them proper rest , and good food , and they were encouraged in their labours by a yearly feast . The best age for a ploughman was considered to be forty . The Greek farmers were accustomed to pro- vide a spare plough ...
... taken to give them proper rest , and good food , and they were encouraged in their labours by a yearly feast . The best age for a ploughman was considered to be forty . The Greek farmers were accustomed to pro- vide a spare plough ...
Page 17
... taken to give them proper rest , and good food , and they were encouraged in their labours by a yearly feast . The best age for a ploughman was considered to be forty . The Greek farmers were accustomed to pro- vide a spare plough ...
... taken to give them proper rest , and good food , and they were encouraged in their labours by a yearly feast . The best age for a ploughman was considered to be forty . The Greek farmers were accustomed to pro- vide a spare plough ...
Page 37
... taken , one half sown as it was , the other half washed in three waters , and then steeped for two hours in brine strong enough to float an egg . The unwashed seed produced a wretched crop , two- thirds at least being smutty ; the ...
... taken , one half sown as it was , the other half washed in three waters , and then steeped for two hours in brine strong enough to float an egg . The unwashed seed produced a wretched crop , two- thirds at least being smutty ; the ...
Page 56
... taken , the trailing habit of the plant will cause it to cover the ground , and thus to shelter weeds to a great extent . Pease and beans are sometimes sown together , the stalks of the latter serving for a support to the former crop ...
... taken , the trailing habit of the plant will cause it to cover the ground , and thus to shelter weeds to a great extent . Pease and beans are sometimes sown together , the stalks of the latter serving for a support to the former crop ...
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... taken up with his duties as the manager of a large flock , to join in the bickerings of his more discontented neighbours . The office of a shepherd is one , which in ancient times was not considered unworthy the most eminent persons ...
... taken up with his duties as the manager of a large flock , to join in the bickerings of his more discontented neighbours . The office of a shepherd is one , which in ancient times was not considered unworthy the most eminent persons ...
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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.