Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 3T. Bensley and sold by J. Wallis, 1800 - Agriculture |
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... never fallen under our own inspection , that it is with some diffidence I shall venture to mention certain peculiarities of these that have been incidentally discovered , lest it should excite some degree of ridicule . But ridicule of ...
... never fallen under our own inspection , that it is with some diffidence I shall venture to mention certain peculiarities of these that have been incidentally discovered , lest it should excite some degree of ridicule . But ridicule of ...
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... never does take place dur- ing the day , but that it commences usually about the same time in the evening , and that this kind of animal shower is nearly of the same duration from the begin- ning to the end of it each night as long as ...
... never does take place dur- ing the day , but that it commences usually about the same time in the evening , and that this kind of animal shower is nearly of the same duration from the begin- ning to the end of it each night as long as ...
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... whom I have taken the quotation that stands at the top of this paper , never wrote a practice and not by theory . For though the whole more unfortunate line , if it were to be judged of by 36 On Historical Composition . 1 ...
... whom I have taken the quotation that stands at the top of this paper , never wrote a practice and not by theory . For though the whole more unfortunate line , if it were to be judged of by 36 On Historical Composition . 1 ...
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... never can tend to enlighten the un- derstanding . I wish it were in my power to adduce a practical illustration of this momentous truth that should be sufficiently clear to prove impressive on the minds of all my readers ; for then I ...
... never can tend to enlighten the un- derstanding . I wish it were in my power to adduce a practical illustration of this momentous truth that should be sufficiently clear to prove impressive on the minds of all my readers ; for then I ...
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... never can tend to enlighten the un- derstanding . I wish it were in my power to adduce a practical illustration of this momentous truth that should be sufficiently clear to prove impressive on the minds of all my readers ; for then I ...
... never can tend to enlighten the un- derstanding . I wish it were in my power to adduce a practical illustration of this momentous truth that should be sufficiently clear to prove impressive on the minds of all my readers ; for then I ...
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Page 235 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Page 236 - ... to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent. How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order ; and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, where, if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient...
Page 235 - ... of the sages; there is no force, there are no prisons, no officers to compel obedience, or inflict punishment. Hence they generally study oratory; the best speaker having the most influence. The Indian women till the ground, dress the food, nurse and bring up the children, and preserve and hand down to posterity the memory of public transactions.
Page 285 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 168 - As those we love decay, we die in part, String after string is sever'd from the heart ; Till loosen'd life at last — but breathing clay, Without one pang, is glad to fall away. Unhappy he who latest feels the blow, Whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, Dragg'd lingering on from partial death to death, Till dying, all he can resign is breath.
Page 239 - Conrad answered all his questions; and when the discourse began to flag, the Indian, to continue it, said, "Conrad, you have lived long among the white people, and know something of their customs; I have been sometimes at Albany, and have observed that once in seven days they shut up their shops and assemble all in the great house; tell me what it is for? What do they do there?" "They meet there," says Conrad, "to hear and learn good things.
Page 239 - ... guides, or any necessaries for continuing their journey; and nothing is exacted for the entertainment. The same hospitality, esteemed among them as a principal virtue, is practised by private persons; of which Conrad Weiser, our interpreter, gave me the following instance. He had been naturalized among the Six Nations, and spoke well the Mohawk language.
Page 241 - ... and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on ; we demand nothing in return. But, if I go into a white man's house at Albany, and ask for victuals and drink, they say, 'Where is your money?' and if I have none, they say,
Page 237 - What you have told us," says he, "is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into cider. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers.
Page 235 - Nations would send down half a dozen of their sons to that college, the government would take care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the white people. It is one of the Indian rules of politeness, not to answer a public proposition the same day that it is made ; they think it would be treating it as a light matter, and that they show it respect by taking time to consider it, as of a matter important.