 | Thomas Shaw - 1808 - 520 Seiten
...order and regularity, the study of soil and composts, or the aiming at any new improvements, would be so many deviations from the practice of their ancestors,...they follow with the utmost devotion and reverence. SECTION HI. Of the Soil, Salts, Mineral Wateri, Hot Springs, &c. i THE soil, which supports all trees... | |
 | Miss Tully - 1819 - 412 Seiten
...regularity, the study of soil and composts, or the aiming at any new improvements and discoveries, would be so many deviations from the practice of their ancestors, whose footsteps they follow with the utmost reverence apd devotion. Shaw's Travels, pi 228. Oxford, 1733. 289 •terra them) talking of their babies,... | |
 | 1849 - 856 Seiten
...unreasonable to expect rapid progress in the agriculture of Hindostan. The aiming at new improvements are so many deviations from the practice of their ancestors,...presence of enterprising inland traders. Dr. Cleghorn mentioned that he had examined and compared all the specie's of Gossypium in the herbarium of the Botanical... | |
 | 1850 - 502 Seiten
...possess, we have wretched enclosures,—in many parts none at all, and cultivators go on in the old way of their ancestors, whose footsteps they follow with the utmost devotion and reverence. Some carefully tie the necks of the sheep and donkeys to their forelegs to prevent their straying over... | |
 | Botanical Society of Edinburgh - 1850 - 530 Seiten
...possess, we have wretehed enclosures, — in many parts none at all, and cultivators go on in the old way of their ancestors, whose footsteps they follow with the utmost devotion and reverence. Some carefully tie the necks of the sheep and donkeys to their forelegs to prevent their straying over... | |
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The aiming at new improvements arc so many deviations from the practice of their ancestors, whose footsteps they follow with the utmost devotion and reverence — hence progress must be slow, but it is not imperceptible. 