Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volumen 11857 |
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... Varieties - Power of Reproduction - Increased Consumption - Barley , Oats , and Rye - Sowing - Drills -Casualties of Crops - Reaping - Glean- ing - Harvest - Home - Grinding at the Mill - Spiritual Applications— GREEN , LEGUMINOUS , AND ...
... Varieties - Power of Reproduction - Increased Consumption - Barley , Oats , and Rye - Sowing - Drills -Casualties of Crops - Reaping - Glean- ing - Harvest - Home - Grinding at the Mill - Spiritual Applications— GREEN , LEGUMINOUS , AND ...
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... varieties have been described , known gene- rally by local names , as the Taunton , Spalding , Hope- ton , Hunter's , and others . New kinds , produced by variations of culture and soil , are from time to time brought under the notice ...
... varieties have been described , known gene- rally by local names , as the Taunton , Spalding , Hope- ton , Hunter's , and others . New kinds , produced by variations of culture and soil , are from time to time brought under the notice ...
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... varieties ; and the grey or field pea , pisum arvense , cul- tivated on farms and used for fattening cattle . Fuller mentions that peas were brought from Holland , in the time of Queen Elizabeth , " fit dainties for ladies , they came ...
... varieties ; and the grey or field pea , pisum arvense , cul- tivated on farms and used for fattening cattle . Fuller mentions that peas were brought from Holland , in the time of Queen Elizabeth , " fit dainties for ladies , they came ...
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... varieties . The long - horns are an ancient breed , remarkable for the form as well as the enormous length of the dis- tinctive appendages . Though sometimes projecting horizontally on each side of the head , they generally sweep ...
... varieties . The long - horns are an ancient breed , remarkable for the form as well as the enormous length of the dis- tinctive appendages . Though sometimes projecting horizontally on each side of the head , they generally sweep ...
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... varieties . But the best and richest , com- manding the highest price in the market , is the Stilton , so called after a small town of that name in Huntingdonshire . It is somewhat singular , that the cheese which has acquired this name ...
... varieties . But the best and richest , com- manding the highest price in the market , is the Stilton , so called after a small town of that name in Huntingdonshire . It is somewhat singular , that the cheese which has acquired this name ...
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.