Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volumen 11857 |
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Página 30
... single seed , in less than twelve months , which pro- duced 21,109 ears , containing by computation 576,840 grains . The produce weighed 47 lbs . 7 ozs . , and mea- sured three pecks and three quarters . Dr. Adam Clarke likewise ...
... single seed , in less than twelve months , which pro- duced 21,109 ears , containing by computation 576,840 grains . The produce weighed 47 lbs . 7 ozs . , and mea- sured three pecks and three quarters . Dr. Adam Clarke likewise ...
Página 33
... single stalk innumerable legions of plants have been obtained . Rye , secale cereale , once an important bread - corn , has now ceased to be separately consumed by our population ; but a mixture of rye and wheat , pro- vincially called ...
... single stalk innumerable legions of plants have been obtained . Rye , secale cereale , once an important bread - corn , has now ceased to be separately consumed by our population ; but a mixture of rye and wheat , pro- vincially called ...
Página 36
... single ears by a large family often yields several bushels of grain . The practice is recognised by the Mosaic law , by which the poor were allowed to glean three different kinds of produce , that of the vineyard , the olive - yard ...
... single ears by a large family often yields several bushels of grain . The practice is recognised by the Mosaic law , by which the poor were allowed to glean three different kinds of produce , that of the vineyard , the olive - yard ...
Página 37
... single offering in the name of the whole nation , besides which , every person was obliged to make an individual one from the produce of his ground . The blessing of a finished harvest was similarly recognised ; and the produce could ...
... single offering in the name of the whole nation , besides which , every person was obliged to make an individual one from the produce of his ground . The blessing of a finished harvest was similarly recognised ; and the produce could ...
Página 43
... and more sustaining articles of diet , the Irish entailed upon themselves physical de- pression , famines , and pestilences , by placing their entire dependence upon a single root , not adapted to TILLAGE HUSBANDRY . 43.
... and more sustaining articles of diet , the Irish entailed upon themselves physical de- pression , famines , and pestilences , by placing their entire dependence upon a single root , not adapted to TILLAGE HUSBANDRY . 43.
Términos y frases comunes
agricultural amount ancient animals annual beautiful Birmingham breed brought Burslem called cattle chiefly cloth boards coal coast colour commenced common copper corn Cornwall cotton crops cultivation Deanston Derbyshire district domestic early employed England established exported extensively fabrics factories feet fish fishery flax Forest of Dean furnace heat Hudson's Bay Company hundred husbandry imported improved industry invention Ireland iron island kinds kingdom labour Lancashire land Land's End last century London machine machinery manufac manufacture material metal metropolis Mevagissey miles mill millions mineral mines native neighbourhood Nottingham obtained operations owing period pilchards plant plough pottery pounds weight produce purpose quantity reign remarkable rendered Romans Russia Scotland season seed sheep silk skins soil Spitalfields Staffordshire steam-engine steel stone Suffolk supply surface thousand tion tons towns trade upwards vast Wales wheat wool woollen workmen yarn Yorkshire
Pasajes populares
Página 5 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock...
Página 328 - Give me to bear Thy easy yoke, And every moment watch and pray, And still to things eternal look, And hasten to Thy glorious day; 5 For Thee delightfully employ Whate'er Thy bounteous grace hath given, And run my course with even joy, And closely walk with Thee to Heaven.
Página 63 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Página 17 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Página 24 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Página 92 - Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM that sitteth on the Throne, and from the Wrath of the LAMB : for the great Day of His Wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand...
Página 40 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Página 76 - Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
Página 39 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 60 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.