Evans's Rural Economist, Band 11862 |
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Seite 192 - Such a shameful degree of profligacy prevailed, that the retailers of this poisonous compound set up painted boards in public, inviting people to be drunk for the small expense of one penny ; assuring them they might be dead drunk for two-pence, and have straw for nothing.
Seite 385 - The entire metric system of weights and measures is based upon a fundamental nnit called a meter, which is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the equator to the pole, and is the principal unit of linear measure.
Seite 390 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Seite 258 - Catholics took quiet possession of the little place ; and religious liberty obtained a home — its only home in the wide world — at the humble village which bore the name of St. Mary's.
Seite 2 - Almighty Maker has throughout Discriminated each from each, by strokes And touches of his hand, with so much art Diversified, that two were never found Twins at all points— yet this obtains in all, That all discern a beauty in his works, And all can taste them...
Seite 388 - I have considered well his loss of time ; And how he cannot be a perfect man, Not being tried and tutored in the world: Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time : Then, tell me, whither were I best to send him?
Seite 19 - Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation ? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Seite 258 - I will not, by myself or any other, directly or indirectly, molest any person professing to believe in Jesus Christ, for or in respect of religion.
Seite 262 - ... chickens for fall and winter stores. The expense of feeding the dozen fowls will not amount to eighteen bushels of Indian corn. They may be kept in cities as well as in the country, and will do as well shut up the year round as to run at large; and a grated room well lighted...
Seite 257 - Calvert deserves to be ranked among the most wise and benevolent lawgivers of all ages. He was the first, in the history of the Christian world, to seek for religious security and peace, by the practice of justice, and not by the exercise of power ; to plan the establishment of popular institutions with the enjoyment of liberty of conscience ; to advance the career of civilization by recognizing the rightful equality of all Christian sects.