Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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... agricultural districts especially , to many acts of daring violence . Hap- pily , that spirit is passed away . The spirit of knowledge has arisen . In remodelling that portion of the present volume it is unnecessary so fully to ...
... agricultural districts especially , to many acts of daring violence . Hap- pily , that spirit is passed away . The spirit of knowledge has arisen . In remodelling that portion of the present volume it is unnecessary so fully to ...
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... agriculture - Erroneous notions formerly prevalent on this subject - Its advantages to the labourer Spade husbandry ... agriculture in the sixteenth century Modern improvements - Prices of wheat - Increased breadth of land under ...
... agriculture - Erroneous notions formerly prevalent on this subject - Its advantages to the labourer Spade husbandry ... agriculture in the sixteenth century Modern improvements - Prices of wheat - Increased breadth of land under ...
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... agricultural . In Defoe's story , Robinson Crusoe is represented as going into this pastoral and agricultural state . But he had more resources than Selkirk ; and he at last obtained one resource which carried him back , however ...
... agricultural . In Defoe's story , Robinson Crusoe is represented as going into this pastoral and agricultural state . But he had more resources than Selkirk ; and he at last obtained one resource which carried him back , however ...
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... agriculture and commerce . But even the Indians themselves have become labourers . A number of the tribes have been removed to a large tract of country west of the Mississippi , and have been raised into the dignity of culti vators ...
... agriculture and commerce . But even the Indians themselves have become labourers . A number of the tribes have been removed to a large tract of country west of the Mississippi , and have been raised into the dignity of culti vators ...
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... agriculture was so low that the most absurd enactments were made to compel farmers to till and sow their own lands , and calling upon every man to plant at least forty beans . All the laws for the regulation of labourers , at the same ...
... agriculture was so low that the most absurd enactments were made to compel farmers to till and sow their own lands , and calling upon every man to plant at least forty beans . All the laws for the regulation of labourers , at the same ...
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