British Farmer's Magazine, Vydání 53James Ridgway, 1867 |
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Strana 37 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled.
Strana 119 - How can I teach your children gentleness And mercy to the weak and reverence For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, Is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, Or Death, which, seeming darkness, is no less The self-same light, although averted hence, When, by your laws, your actions, and your speech, You contradict the very things I teach?
Strana 137 - One chief cause of the badness of the roads seems to have been the defective state of the law. Every parish was bound to repair the highways which passed through it. The peasantry were forced to give their gratuitous labour six days in the year.
Strana 247 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Strana 246 - Persons of the Age of Thirteen Years and under the Age of Eighteen Years...
Strana 20 - Having thus barbarously deprived him of the power of searching for and analyzing his food, we then generally condemn him for the rest of his life to solitary confinement in a sty. " While his faculties are still his own, only observe how, with a bark or snort, he starts if you approach him ; and mark what shrewd intelligence there is in his bright twinkling little eye. But with pigs, as with mankind, idleness is the root of all evil.
Strana 274 - Probably this may be taken as a fair average proportion. The same author suggests that, though unquestionably the beneficial effects of this mineral manure depend on the presence of the calcareous matter, the sea salt with which it is impregnated contributes materially to its fertilizing powers...
Strana 292 - Act of 1869), and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, do order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows : — 1.
Strana 137 - ... in water. In the course of another journey he narrowly escaped being swept away by an inundation of the Trent. He was afterwards detained at Stamford four days, on account of the state of the roads, and then ventured to proceed only because fourteen members of the House of Commons, who were going up in a body to Parliament, with guides and numerous attendants, took him into their company.
Strana 246 - ... shall mean any person who hires children, young persons, or women, with a view to their being employed in agricultural labour on lands not in his own occupation ; and, until the contrary is proved, any children, young persons, or women employed in agricultural labour on lands not in the occupation of the person who hired them shall be deemed to have been hired with the aforesaid view ;