The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 15D.J. Powers & Company, 1863 - Agriculture |
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... labor of hoisting and pumping , we have but little idea of the business of mining in Great Britain , where facilities of this sort are very exception- al — a great majority of the mines requiring perpendicular shafts many hundreds of ...
... labor of hoisting and pumping , we have but little idea of the business of mining in Great Britain , where facilities of this sort are very exception- al — a great majority of the mines requiring perpendicular shafts many hundreds of ...
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... labor too ; and none but those that labor , know by experience what they write . I am no better scholar than you , yet , I shall write ; if I don't write right , they must make it right . " But I write for advice . I will state my case ...
... labor too ; and none but those that labor , know by experience what they write . I am no better scholar than you , yet , I shall write ; if I don't write right , they must make it right . " But I write for advice . I will state my case ...
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... labor , but he toils early and late , satisfied with small profits and managing generally to save a large pro- portion of his gains . Thus his income usually exceeds his expend- itures , and he is therefore a rich man - accord- ing to ...
... labor , but he toils early and late , satisfied with small profits and managing generally to save a large pro- portion of his gains . Thus his income usually exceeds his expend- itures , and he is therefore a rich man - accord- ing to ...
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... labor , strength in his fatigue , and thankfulness in his repose . is acknowledged to be the most independent of all men ; working and communing with Nature as he does , must make him the happiest of mortals , or at least , he should be ...
... labor , strength in his fatigue , and thankfulness in his repose . is acknowledged to be the most independent of all men ; working and communing with Nature as he does , must make him the happiest of mortals , or at least , he should be ...
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... labor under , an unusual de- gree of severity . The exhaustion produced by want of rest is equally dangerous ; such horses are always among the first victims of disease , and when attacked their treatment is embarrassing and ...
... labor under , an unusual de- gree of severity . The exhaustion produced by want of rest is equally dangerous ; such horses are always among the first victims of disease , and when attacked their treatment is embarrassing and ...
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Page 280 - And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain, "Ah, that I were free again ! "Free as when I rode that day. Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall...
Page 197 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 196 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Page 299 - The design of the institution, in fulfillment of the injunction of the constitution, is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith. To effect that object most completely the institution shall combine physical with intellectual education and shall be a high seminary of learning in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue, and finish a course of study terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and...
Page 115 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 343 - The fellow laughed, thinking, no doubt, I was joking with him. " What have you got? said another; I gave him the same answer. When they were dividing the spoil, I was called to an eminence where the chief stood. " What property have you got, my little fellow ?" said he. "I have told two of your people already," I replied; "I have forty dinars sewed in my garments." He ordered them to be ripped open, and found my money.
Page 280 - But low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words." But he thought of his sisters proud and cold, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone.
Page 150 - Alas ! how many examples are now present to my memory, of young men the most anxiously and expensively be-school-mastered, be-tutored, be-lectured, any thing but educated ; who have received arms and ammunition, instead of skill, strength, and courage ; varnished rather than polished ; perilously over-civilized, and most pitiably uncultivated ! And all from inattention to the method dictated by nature herself, to the simple truth, that as the forms in all organized existence, so must all true and...
Page 74 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Page 280 - He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine. My father should wear a broadcloth coat, My brother should sail a painted boat.