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... labour may arrange matters to improve the desired result . God entrusts the fitful gales of heaven to scatter innumerable seeds , which are to produce food or shelter for myriads of inferior animals , or to deck the wilderness with ...
... labour may arrange matters to improve the desired result . God entrusts the fitful gales of heaven to scatter innumerable seeds , which are to produce food or shelter for myriads of inferior animals , or to deck the wilderness with ...
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... labour , as in any of those natural wonders , in the formation of which the busy brain and finger of our race have had nothing at all to do . Things are so ordered , excepting in a very few spots of the globe , that Nature performs but ...
... labour , as in any of those natural wonders , in the formation of which the busy brain and finger of our race have had nothing at all to do . Things are so ordered , excepting in a very few spots of the globe , that Nature performs but ...
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... labour in vain . Where water hangs in the land , on or near the surface , very long together , it checks the vegetation of farming crops , so as to compel the husbandman to adopt a remedy . For this purpose , he proceeds , with a long ...
... labour in vain . Where water hangs in the land , on or near the surface , very long together , it checks the vegetation of farming crops , so as to compel the husbandman to adopt a remedy . For this purpose , he proceeds , with a long ...
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... labour of arable fields . Nevertheless , they need attention ; and , if the land be at all good , they fully re- pay it . Grass lands , like others , will , in a short time , be overrun with weeds and suckers from trees , if neglected ...
... labour of arable fields . Nevertheless , they need attention ; and , if the land be at all good , they fully re- pay it . Grass lands , like others , will , in a short time , be overrun with weeds and suckers from trees , if neglected ...
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... labour . The winter is a convenient time also to mend roads , public and private ; but some- times this must be done in the summer . The farmer is allowed , instead of paying money for that purpose , to employ his team and carts for the ...
... labour . The winter is a convenient time also to mend roads , public and private ; but some- times this must be done in the summer . The farmer is allowed , instead of paying money for that purpose , to employ his team and carts for the ...
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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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