Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volume 11857 |
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... surface . Mr. Porter states that , in consequence of improvements in the art of tillage , ten thousand acres of arable and pasture land now support upwards of two thousand more inhabitants than they were capable of doing at the ...
... surface . Mr. Porter states that , in consequence of improvements in the art of tillage , ten thousand acres of arable and pasture land now support upwards of two thousand more inhabitants than they were capable of doing at the ...
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... surface of the land , for then every shower should increase the rush , but it is that which lieth at the root , which drained away at the bottom leaves it a naked and barren relief . " The writer , after giving directions respecting the ...
... surface of the land , for then every shower should increase the rush , but it is that which lieth at the root , which drained away at the bottom leaves it a naked and barren relief . " The writer , after giving directions respecting the ...
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... surface , which is liable to be flooded after heavy rains , could formerly only be relieved of its surplus water by means of wind - mill pumps , which are still extensively employed . But this mode of operation is always uncertain ; and ...
... surface , which is liable to be flooded after heavy rains , could formerly only be relieved of its surplus water by means of wind - mill pumps , which are still extensively employed . But this mode of operation is always uncertain ; and ...
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... I had ever seen , and the only land light- house that was ever raised . " This may be taken as an illustration of the change which a large portion of the surface has undergone . Where swamps and quagmires 22 AGRICULTURE .
... I had ever seen , and the only land light- house that was ever raised . " This may be taken as an illustration of the change which a large portion of the surface has undergone . Where swamps and quagmires 22 AGRICULTURE .
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Thomas Milner. of the surface has undergone . Where swamps and quagmires once existed , bearing bulrushes and reeds , haunted by the bittern , the wild duck , and the snipe , drainage has produced a solid soil , waving with vege- tation ...
Thomas Milner. of the surface has undergone . Where swamps and quagmires once existed , bearing bulrushes and reeds , haunted by the bittern , the wild duck , and the snipe , drainage has produced a solid soil , waving with vege- tation ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.