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... friends thought me , what I really was , an intolerably conceited little man . - - I became extremely fond of the notion , which I had somehow acquired , that old folks in the country could not possibly be half B so wise and clever as ...
... friends thought me , what I really was , an intolerably conceited little man . - - I became extremely fond of the notion , which I had somehow acquired , that old folks in the country could not possibly be half B so wise and clever as ...
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... friend , and a very friendly lad he is ; —you also need one , who is able to shew you what sort of con- duct we expect in a boy supposed to be really clever and well behaved . " Though this was said in the kindest man- ner , it was a ...
... friend , and a very friendly lad he is ; —you also need one , who is able to shew you what sort of con- duct we expect in a boy supposed to be really clever and well behaved . " Though this was said in the kindest man- ner , it was a ...
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... friends the names of the fields as they lie before me . The farmer and his men could never understand each other , as to the particular cultivation and business to be done on the several parcels of land , if each had not its own ...
... friends the names of the fields as they lie before me . The farmer and his men could never understand each other , as to the particular cultivation and business to be done on the several parcels of land , if each had not its own ...
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... friends that this is quite a mistake . We will now take a little notice of those processes of moving the soil , which constitute the art of tillage . The PLOUGH is , and has been , the grand im- plement of husbandry for this purpose ...
... friends that this is quite a mistake . We will now take a little notice of those processes of moving the soil , which constitute the art of tillage . The PLOUGH is , and has been , the grand im- plement of husbandry for this purpose ...
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... friend endures the scorching beams , or braves the northern blasts , and comes , a golden gift , alike to the sun - burnt fainting African and the snow - wrapt Muscovite . Seeing that it bears such extremes of climate , spreading from ...
... friend endures the scorching beams , or braves the northern blasts , and comes , a golden gift , alike to the sun - burnt fainting African and the snow - wrapt Muscovite . Seeing that it bears such extremes of climate , spreading from ...
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୪ ୪ ୪ Abbot's ancient animals Author balusters barley barn better Brook Field bundles called caraway cattle chiefly Children cloth clover coloured common COMMON WHEAT CORIANDER corn crop cultivated earth Edition employed England farm farmer feet Field FIORIN flax flowers fork Frontispiece Gablesides grain granary grass ground half-bound hand harvest hedge and ditch hemp hide HISTORY hops horses hundred acres Illustrations inclosures ISAAC TAYLOR John Harris kind labour land London machine machine presses manure ment milk mole-catcher morocco nature nearly oats pasture perennial plant performed persons Philip plant plough Price principal produce purpose quantity require roots scarcely season seed sheep shew shining season side soil sometimes sort sown stack stalks STORIES straw teasels things threshing tillage tion Upshire usually vegetable weather wheat whilst WHITE CLOVER winter wood yard young
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