Cottage comforts, with hints for promoting them1841 - 80 páginas |
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... plant your potatoes , and prick out your cabbages - they will be growing , without your care and labour , while you repair your house . But if house first , you must go without a crop for that year . serve , too , to do out - of - doors ...
... plant your potatoes , and prick out your cabbages - they will be growing , without your care and labour , while you repair your house . But if house first , you must go without a crop for that year . serve , too , to do out - of - doors ...
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... plant- ing the whole garden with them , I would not do that either ; something more profitable may be done with it . I would make the best of my garden at any rate ; and if I ran short of potatoes for the use of the family , I would buy ...
... plant- ing the whole garden with them , I would not do that either ; something more profitable may be done with it . I would make the best of my garden at any rate ; and if I ran short of potatoes for the use of the family , I would buy ...
Página 44
... plants having stood one entire year , or rather more , should be moved , any time from November to March , into a more open spot ; round the beds your garden for instance they will most likely bear the following year . You should let ...
... plants having stood one entire year , or rather more , should be moved , any time from November to March , into a more open spot ; round the beds your garden for instance they will most likely bear the following year . You should let ...
Página 45
... plant a young one near every one that begins to look great and overgrown , and after gathering the fruit , pull the old ... plants which are raised from seed , flower , seed , and decay within the year - such as sweet peas , lark- spurs ...
... plant a young one near every one that begins to look great and overgrown , and after gathering the fruit , pull the old ... plants which are raised from seed , flower , seed , and decay within the year - such as sweet peas , lark- spurs ...
Página 46
... plants as come up year after year from the same roots - mint , balm , lilies of the valley , Michaelmas daisies , lychnes , and many others . Instead of throwing away what you have to spare , take them up neatly , with a ball of earth ...
... plants as come up year after year from the same roots - mint , balm , lilies of the valley , Michaelmas daisies , lychnes , and many others . Instead of throwing away what you have to spare , take them up neatly , with a ball of earth ...
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Página 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 231 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; not with eye-service, as menpleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart...
Página 231 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Página 88 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Página 228 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Página 11 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.
Página 231 - How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my God ?
Página 207 - The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets.
Página 20 - I'll try if I can get it. Upon this he set down his basket in the road, and began to climb up the tree. He had half ascended, when, casting a look at his basket, he saw a dog with his nose in it, ferreting out the piece of kid's flesh.
Página 4 - HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. A NOBLEMAN travelling in Scotland, about six years ago, was asked for alms in the High street of Edinburgh, by a little ragged boy. He said he had no change ; upon which the boy offered to procure it. His lordship, in order to get rid of his importunity, gave him a piece of silver, and the boy conceiving it was to be changed, ran off for that purpose.