 | Jethro Tull - Agricultural implements - 1751 - 480 pages
...finding out the Dimenfions, and even Weight, of the Planets : They think it more eligible to ftudy the Art of plowing the Sea with Ships, than of tilling the Land with Ploughs ; they beftow the utmoft of their Skill, learnedly, to pervert the natural Ufe of all the Elements for Deftruclion... | |
 | William Cobbett - English language - 1819 - 198 pages
...sions and even weight of the planets. They " think it more eligible to study the art of plough" ing the sea with ships, than of tilling the land " with...They bestow the utmost of their " skill, learnedly to pervert the natural use of al} " the elements for destruction of their own species «' by the bloody... | |
 | William Cobbett - English language - 1835 - 298 pages
...dimensions and even " weight of the planets. They think it more eligible " to study the art of ploughing the sea with ships, " than of tilling the land with...ploughs. They bestow " the utmost of their skill, learneJly to pervert the " natural use of all the elements Jbr destruction of " their own species by... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1870 - 230 pages
...introduction of the only subject on which I believed him to be able to speak with propriety." — R. No. 126. than of tilling the land with ploughs. They bestow the utmost of their skill, learnedly to pervert the natural use of all the elements for destruction of their own speeies by the bloody art... | |
 | Robert Waters - English language - 1883 - 616 pages
...dimensions and even weight of the planets. They think it more eligible to study the art of ploughing the sea with ships than of tilling the land with ploughs....They bestow the utmost of their skill, learnedly to pervert the natural use of all the elements for destruction of their own species by the bloody art... | |
 | Isaac Phillips Roberts - Fertilizers - 1897 - 454 pages
...increased conservation of moisture will be secured. ing Instruments to measure the immense Distanee of the Stars, and in finding out the Dimensions, and...Skill, learnedly, to prevent the natural Use of all the Elements for Destruction of their own Species, by the bloody Art of War. Some waste their whole... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1897 - 1464 pages
...Instruments to measure the immense Distance of the Stars, and in finding out the Dimensions, and even AVeight of the Planets: They think it more •eligible to...Skill, learnedly, to prevent the natural Use of all the Elements for Destruction of their own Species, by the bloody Art of War. Some waste their whole... | |
 | Isaac Phillips Roberts - Fertilizers - 1898 - 462 pages
...secured. This narrative recalls the noble words of Jethro Tull, written early in the last century: "Men of the greatest Learning have spent their Time...Skill, learnedly, to prevent the natural Use of all the Elements for Destruction of their own Species, by the bloody Art of War. Some waste their whole... | |
 | Liberty Hyde Bailey - Agriculture - 1907 - 704 pages
...plows. " 'Tis strange," he says, " that no Author should have written fully of the Fabric of Ploughs ! Men of the greatest Learning have spent their Time...Skill, learnedly, to prevent the natural Use of all the Elements for Destruction of their own Species, by the bloody Art of War. Some waste their whole... | |
 | Lynn Webster Ellis, Edward Aloysius Rumely - Plow - 1911 - 380 pages
...their Time in contriving Instruments to measure the immense Distance of the Stars, and in finding out Dimensions, and even Weight of the Planets; they think...Skill, learnedly, to prevent the natural Use of all the Elements of Destruction of their own Species by the Bloody Art of War. Some waste their whole Lives... | |
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Some waste their whole Lives in studying how to arm Death with new Engines of Horror, and inventing an infinite Variety of Slaughter ; but think it beneath Men of Learning (who only are capable... 
