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... A UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY , ' " " THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND , " ETC. LONDON : THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY ; Instituted 1799 . DEPOSITORIES : 56 , PATERNOSTER - ROW , 65 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH- YARD , AND 164 , PICCADILLY . 1858 . BIBL OTHE BODLE.
... A UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY , ' " " THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND , " ETC. LONDON : THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY ; Instituted 1799 . DEPOSITORIES : 56 , PATERNOSTER - ROW , 65 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH- YARD , AND 164 , PICCADILLY . 1858 . BIBL OTHE BODLE.
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... ENGLAND , " ETC. LONDON : THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY ; Instituted 1799 . DEPOSITORIES : 56 , PATERNOSTER - ROW , 65 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH- YARD , AND 164 , PICCADILLY . 1858 . THE BODLE જૂન DOMINA NUSTIU ILLUMEA ገጠ CONTENTS . CHAPTER.
... ENGLAND , " ETC. LONDON : THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY ; Instituted 1799 . DEPOSITORIES : 56 , PATERNOSTER - ROW , 65 , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH- YARD , AND 164 , PICCADILLY . 1858 . THE BODLE જૂન DOMINA NUSTIU ILLUMEA ገጠ CONTENTS . CHAPTER.
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... lopping the fruit - trees , pruning the vines , or picking the grapes . There is therefore no doubt of the cultivation of the vine in England at one time for wine - making , it being left to the natural 10 AGRICULTURE .
... lopping the fruit - trees , pruning the vines , or picking the grapes . There is therefore no doubt of the cultivation of the vine in England at one time for wine - making , it being left to the natural 10 AGRICULTURE .
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... England upon the subject was written by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert , a Judge of the Common . Pleas , in 1534. Tusser , the author of the work en- titled , " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry , " published in 1562 , was a scholar of ...
... England upon the subject was written by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert , a Judge of the Common . Pleas , in 1534. Tusser , the author of the work en- titled , " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry , " published in 1562 , was a scholar of ...
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... England , as it remained in a very backward condition to a much later date . Fallowing , a practice common in early times on the south of the Tweed , was not introduced on the north till some time after the last century had commenced ...
... England , as it remained in a very backward condition to a much later date . Fallowing , a practice common in early times on the south of the Tweed , was not introduced on the north till some time after the last century had commenced ...
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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.