The Call of the Land: Popular Chapters on Topics of Interest to FarmersOrange Judd Company, 1913 - 385 páginas |
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... effect can be had with minimum slant . In winter these beds may be covered with strips and figures of stone chips in various colors so as to be very grace- ful . I have seen this device carried out in palace courtyards in Europe with ...
... effect can be had with minimum slant . In winter these beds may be covered with strips and figures of stone chips in various colors so as to be very grace- ful . I have seen this device carried out in palace courtyards in Europe with ...
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... is perfect in its decora- tion and appointments the effect of its non- use is frigidity . There is , of course , no im- propriety in making certain rooms finer than others , but all your rooms should be for 16 THE CALL OF THE LAND.
... is perfect in its decora- tion and appointments the effect of its non- use is frigidity . There is , of course , no im- propriety in making certain rooms finer than others , but all your rooms should be for 16 THE CALL OF THE LAND.
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... effects you notice that mother Nature works several devices . She lays out vast expanses of some one dull hue or of several dull hues so blended that your eye catches the resultant tint rather than any constituent . The sky by day , a ...
... effects you notice that mother Nature works several devices . She lays out vast expanses of some one dull hue or of several dull hues so blended that your eye catches the resultant tint rather than any constituent . The sky by day , a ...
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... . If you were giving a room the most stunning effect possible for a single day , evening or week , you might paint floor and ceiling rich blue or red or even green , with here and there a picture of the same color or 20 THE CALL OF THE ...
... . If you were giving a room the most stunning effect possible for a single day , evening or week , you might paint floor and ceiling rich blue or red or even green , with here and there a picture of the same color or 20 THE CALL OF THE ...
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... effects so decisive that some thinkers regard them . as destined to reduce the rural population of America to ignorant peasants such as we see and pity in most European lands . Whether or not the danger is so great as is alleged , we ...
... effects so decisive that some thinkers regard them . as destined to reduce the rural population of America to ignorant peasants such as we see and pity in most European lands . Whether or not the danger is so great as is alleged , we ...
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Página 184 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Página 184 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Página 98 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Página 314 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Página 185 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Página 188 - Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.
Página 351 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now...
Página 352 - THERE is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God. Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, "Be patient, heart; light breaketh by and by,
Página 239 - Who can see the green earth any more As she was by the sources of Time? Who imagines her fields as they lay In the sunshine, unworn by the plough? Who thinks as they thought, The tribes who then roam'd on her breast, Her vigorous, primitive sons?
Página 238 - Some keep the Sabbath in surplice; I just wear my wings, And instead of tolling the bell for church, Our little sexton sings. God preaches, - a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along!