A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature and Practical Mechanics: Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, a General Atlas, and Appropriate Diagrams, Band 11Thomas Curtis Thomas Tegg, 1829 |
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... crops usually followed is first a fallow , on which the land is cultivated for potatoes , peas , or flax ; then winter corn , either rye or wheat , but chiefly the former , and to them succeeds summer corn , either barley or oats . The ...
... crops usually followed is first a fallow , on which the land is cultivated for potatoes , peas , or flax ; then winter corn , either rye or wheat , but chiefly the former , and to them succeeds summer corn , either barley or oats . The ...
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... crops of oats , barley , and potatoes , and all of them pasture ; but the soil in general is poor , and the greater part not arable . The population in 1793 , stated by the Rev. John M'Leod , in his report to Sir J. Sinclair , was 2536 ...
... crops of oats , barley , and potatoes , and all of them pasture ; but the soil in general is poor , and the greater part not arable . The population in 1793 , stated by the Rev. John M'Leod , in his report to Sir J. Sinclair , was 2536 ...
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... crop renewes , Which with harvests , hills , and vallics crowne . G. Withers . When the father is too fondly kind ... crops . There are various modes of effecting this kind of business : indeed peculiarities are found attached to almost ...
... crop renewes , Which with harvests , hills , and vallics crowne . G. Withers . When the father is too fondly kind ... crops . There are various modes of effecting this kind of business : indeed peculiarities are found attached to almost ...
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... crops at the height of twelve or fifteen , and sometimes eighteen inches from the ground ; the handfuls , as they are reaped , being laid on bands formed from some of the reeds of the crop twisted or knotted together near to the ear ...
... crops at the height of twelve or fifteen , and sometimes eighteen inches from the ground ; the handfuls , as they are reaped , being laid on bands formed from some of the reeds of the crop twisted or knotted together near to the ear ...
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... crops , and rendering them fit for being carried and stacked up . In cases where grain crops are cut in a wet state , as not unfrequently hap- pens towards the end of a late harvest , this is in all probability the best plan that can ...
... crops , and rendering them fit for being carried and stacked up . In cases where grain crops are cut in a wet state , as not unfrequently hap- pens towards the end of a late harvest , this is in all probability the best plan that can ...
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Seite 389 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Seite 121 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 124 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Seite 357 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Seite 24 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Seite 33 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Seite 189 - Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Seite 122 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep.
Seite 80 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul : And, dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Seite 391 - Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.