Our home islands [by T. Milner, Band 11857 |
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... kinds of grain , especially oats , constituted the main crop . From the extensive culti- vation of the latter , it may be inferred , that as in Scotland and Yorkshire at present , it was made into HISTORICAL SKETCH . 9.
... kinds of grain , especially oats , constituted the main crop . From the extensive culti- vation of the latter , it may be inferred , that as in Scotland and Yorkshire at present , it was made into HISTORICAL SKETCH . 9.
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... latter to 47,522,970 . Adding the two quantities together , we have 61,522,970 statute acres for the total comple- ment of land in the United Kingdom under cultivation or susceptible of it . Exclusive of Ireland , it appears from the ...
... latter to 47,522,970 . Adding the two quantities together , we have 61,522,970 statute acres for the total comple- ment of land in the United Kingdom under cultivation or susceptible of it . Exclusive of Ireland , it appears from the ...
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... latter , on a thin , dry limestone or chalk soil , yields a larger amount of nutritious hay or green food , than any other kind of plant . Clover , trifolium , of several species , is generally and largely grown , for besides being a ...
... latter , on a thin , dry limestone or chalk soil , yields a larger amount of nutritious hay or green food , than any other kind of plant . Clover , trifolium , of several species , is generally and largely grown , for besides being a ...
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... latter division yielded only 18 bushels . The yield was therefore in the one case 25 per cent . better than in the other , while the produce of the weeded portion of barley was more than double that of the unweeded , and the result was ...
... latter division yielded only 18 bushels . The yield was therefore in the one case 25 per cent . better than in the other , while the produce of the weeded portion of barley was more than double that of the unweeded , and the result was ...
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... latter superseding rychir- grosse , or dripping , at breakfast . Assuming as a moderate estimate for the two millions of inhabitants in the metropolis and its suburbs , that each individual consumes six ounces of butter per week , this ...
... latter superseding rychir- grosse , or dripping , at breakfast . Assuming as a moderate estimate for the two millions of inhabitants in the metropolis and its suburbs , that each individual consumes six ounces of butter per week , this ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agricultural amount ancient animals annual beautiful Birmingham breed brought Burslem called cattle chiefly cloth boards coal coast colour commenced common copper corn Cornwall cotton crops cultivation Deanston Derbyshire district domestic early employed England established exported extensively fabrics factories feet fish fishery flax Forest of Dean furnace heat Hudson's Bay Company hundred husbandry imported improved industry invention Ireland iron island kinds kingdom labour Lancashire land Land's End last century London machine machinery manufac manufacture material metal metropolis Mevagissey miles mill millions mineral mines native neighbourhood Nottingham obtained operations owing period pilchards plant plough pottery pounds weight produce purpose quantity reign remarkable rendered Romans Russia Scotland season seed sheep silk skins soil Spitalfields Staffordshire steam-engine steel stone Suffolk supply surface thousand tion tons towns trade upwards vast Wales wheat wool woollen workmen yarn Yorkshire
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock...
Seite 328 - Give me to bear Thy easy yoke, And every moment watch and pray, And still to things eternal look, And hasten to Thy glorious day; 5 For Thee delightfully employ Whate'er Thy bounteous grace hath given, And run my course with even joy, And closely walk with Thee to Heaven.
Seite 63 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Seite 17 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Seite 24 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Seite 92 - Fall on us, and hide us from the face of HIM that sitteth on the Throne, and from the Wrath of the LAMB : for the great Day of His Wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand...
Seite 40 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Seite 76 - Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
Seite 39 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Seite 60 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.