The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 7Luthur Tucker, 1852 |
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... look around and choose for themselves , than they bid good bye to farming . It is too slow for the boys , and not genteel enough for the girls . All the education of the schools they go to , has nothing to do with making a far- mer of a ...
... look around and choose for themselves , than they bid good bye to farming . It is too slow for the boys , and not genteel enough for the girls . All the education of the schools they go to , has nothing to do with making a far- mer of a ...
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... look at those wide , un- sightly thickets of elm , and sumac , and briers , and choke - cherry , that mark the lines of every , fence ! Approach the house , built in the road to be EDUCATION IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS . 11.
... look at those wide , un- sightly thickets of elm , and sumac , and briers , and choke - cherry , that mark the lines of every , fence ! Approach the house , built in the road to be EDUCATION IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS . 11.
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... looks with reverence upon every giant remnant of the forest , that by good luck escaped his murderous axe in former days . No leafy monarch is now laid low without a stern necessity demands it ; but many a vigorous tree is planted in ...
... looks with reverence upon every giant remnant of the forest , that by good luck escaped his murderous axe in former days . No leafy monarch is now laid low without a stern necessity demands it ; but many a vigorous tree is planted in ...
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... look with delighted admiration at his sons , his educated sons , as they take hold of every kind of work , and roll it off with easy motion , but with the power of mind in every stroke . But it is the proud mother who takes the solid ...
... look with delighted admiration at his sons , his educated sons , as they take hold of every kind of work , and roll it off with easy motion , but with the power of mind in every stroke . But it is the proud mother who takes the solid ...
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... looks as if it were cover- ed with clothes hung up to dry , does very little towards aiding the picturesque . And he who endeavors to improve his taste in these particulars , will not fail to discern in time that a range of country ...
... looks as if it were cover- ed with clothes hung up to dry , does very little towards aiding the picturesque . And he who endeavors to improve his taste in these particulars , will not fail to discern in time that a range of country ...
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Page 285 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 283 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah : their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter : Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Page 278 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 281 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
Page 281 - Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Page 418 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 282 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 27 - Sirrah had been unable to manage, until he came to that commanding situation. But what was our astonishment when we discovered by degrees that not one lamb of the whole flock was wanting ! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark, is beyond my comprehension. The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising...
Page 282 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 312 - ... in order to give him habits of thought and mental discipline for the pulpit; yet, this is not half as ridiculous, in reality, as the reverse absurdity of attempting to educate the man of work in unknown tongues, abstract problems and theories, and metaphysical figments and quibbles.