Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1862 - Agriculture |
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... equals , and appropriated to their own use the conveniences designed for the Roman people . " " Owing to the degradation of labor , " says Gibbon , " the plebeians disdained to work with their hands , and the husbandman , being obliged ...
... equals , and appropriated to their own use the conveniences designed for the Roman people . " " Owing to the degradation of labor , " says Gibbon , " the plebeians disdained to work with their hands , and the husbandman , being obliged ...
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... equal , in profit , as has been conclusively shown by the census , to the labor of five men in South Carolina ? It is because her people believe , most thor- oughly , that " knowledge is power , " and that it is the highest wisdom of po ...
... equal , in profit , as has been conclusively shown by the census , to the labor of five men in South Carolina ? It is because her people believe , most thor- oughly , that " knowledge is power , " and that it is the highest wisdom of po ...
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... equal advantage , and so rapidly help to accomplish that great end - to which , indeed , all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind ! " Such were the sublime aspirations , such the noble language , of him who justly ...
... equal advantage , and so rapidly help to accomplish that great end - to which , indeed , all history points - the realization of the unity of mankind ! " Such were the sublime aspirations , such the noble language , of him who justly ...
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... equal to the full measure of a world's exhibition . Once in a decade is , probably , as often as all the nations of the earth will deem it economical or necessary to meet and compare results . PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1862 ...
... equal to the full measure of a world's exhibition . Once in a decade is , probably , as often as all the nations of the earth will deem it economical or necessary to meet and compare results . PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1862 ...
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... equal parts , commencing on the outside , next Cromwell road , if we pace back and forth between the transept and avenue , we shall find carriages of every style and description known in the United Kingdom ; hardware , in- cluding ...
... equal parts , commencing on the outside , next Cromwell road , if we pace back and forth between the transept and avenue , we shall find carriages of every style and description known in the United Kingdom ; hardware , in- cluding ...
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Page 201 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 5 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 79 - I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
Page 6 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 117 - This explanation is simple justice to western cultivators, whose knowledge of the culture seems impugned in the transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry...
Page 286 - After breakfast, accompanied by Col° Wadsworth, Mr. [Oliver] Ellsworth and Col° Jesse Root, I viewed the Woolen Manufactory at this place, which seems to be going on with spirit. Their Broadcloths are not of the first quality, as yet, but they are good ; as are their Coatings, Cassimeres, Serges and Everlastings; of the first, that is, broad-cloth, I ordered a suit to be sent to me at New York — and of the latter a whole piece, to make breeches for my servants. All the parts of this business...
Page 457 - Then the door was shut. I heard no more. They had but flung this great agony in upon me, and left me alone with it again.
Page 446 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.
Page 285 - Manufacture, and I myself have seen Serge made upon Long Island that any man may wear. Now, if they begin to make Serge, they will, in time, make coarse Cloth, and then fine ; we have as good fullers...
Page 29 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.