A Family-text Book for the Country: Or, The Farmer at Home: Being a Cyclopaedia of the More Important Topics in Modern Agriculture, and in Natural History and Domestic Economy, Adapted to Rural LifeC.M. Saxton, 1857 - 475 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 230 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Pàgina 124 - ... in order to complete even this homely production. How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country...
Pàgina 124 - ... if we examine, I say, all these things, and consider what a variety of labour is employed about each of them, we shall be sensible that, without the assistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.
Pàgina 445 - And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
Pàgina 124 - To say nothing of such complicated machines as the ship of the sailor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver...
Pàgina 124 - The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
Pàgina 124 - ... the glass window which lets in the heat and the light, and keeps out the wind and the rain...
Pàgina 324 - ... that of burning coal, and soon after had a view of the lake, which at first sight appeared to be an expanse of still water, frequently interrupted by clumps of dwarf trees or islets of rushes and shrubs ; but on a nearer approach we found it to be in reality an extensive plain of mineral pitch, with frequent crevices and chasms filled with water.
Pàgina 139 - By his skill in astronomy he knew that there was shortly to be a total eclipse of the moon. He assembled all the principal persons of the district around him on the day before it happened, and, after reproaching them for their fickleness in withdrawing their affection and assistance from men whom they had lately revered, he told them, that the Spaniards were servants of the Great Spirit who dwells in heaven, who made and governs the world; that...
Pàgina 364 - In a letter, printed in the German Ephemerides, we have an account of a combat between an enormous serpent and a buffalo, by a person, who assures us that he was himself a spectator. The serpent had for some time been waiting near the brink of a pool, in expectation of its prey ; when a buffalo was the first that offered. Having darted upon the affrighted animal, it instantly began to wrap it round with its voluminous twistings ; and at every twist the bones of the buffalo were heard to crack almost...