 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1859 - 600 páginas
...productive virtues of the soil. Can those old men be called unhappy who delight in the cultivation of the soil? In my opinion, there can be no happier...salutary to all, but from the pleasure it yields. Nothing can be more profitable, nothing more beautiful than a well cultivated farm." This is the opinion... | |
 | California. Legislature - 1885 - 1039 páginas
...husbandry are not what exclusively commend it; I am charmed with the nature and productive virtues of the soil. In my opinion there can be no happier life; not only because the tillage of the soil is salutary to us all, but from the pleasures it yields. Nothing can be more profitable, nothing... | |
 | 1888 - 980 páginas
...those old men be called unhappy who delight in the cultivation of the soil 1 In my opinion there can bo no happier life, not only because the tillage of the...stored with wealth ; it abounds in pigs, in kids, in Iambs, in poultry, in milk, in cheese, in honey. Nothing can bo more profitable, nothing more beautiful,... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - 976 páginas
...virtues of the soil. Can those old men be called unhappy who delight in the cultivation of the soil i In my opinion there can be no happier life, not only because the tillage of thi earth is salutary to all, but from the pleasure it yields. The whole establishment of a good and... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1893 - 722 páginas
...even of brief contemplation. We trust, however, that for many the words of Cato express a truth, " In my opinion, there can be no happier life, not only because the tillage of the earth is salutary, but from the pleasure it yields." With that delicate precision of meaning and apt expression peculiar... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1895 - 1002 páginas
...productive virtues of the soil. Can those old men be called unhappy who delight in the cultivation of the soil? In my opinion there can be no happier...stored with wealth ; it abounds in pigs, in kids, in Iambs, in poultry, in milk, in cheese, in honey. Nothing can be more profitable, nothing more beautiful... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1906 - 984 páginas
...happier life, not only because the tillage of the earth is salutary to all, but from the pleasures it yields. The whole establishment of a good and assiduous...is stored with wealth; it abounds in pigs, in kids, in Iambs, in poultry, in milk, in cheese, in honey. Nothing can be more profitable, nothing more beautiful,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1888 - 838 páginas
...productive virtues of the soil. Can those old men be called unhappy who delight in the cultivation of the soil? In my opinion, there can be no happier...stored with wealth ; it abounds in pigs, in kids, in lambs, in poultry, in milk, in cheese, in honeyNothing can be more profitable, nothing more beautiful,... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1902 - 996 páginas
...and productive virtues of the soil. Can these old men be called happy who delight iii the cultivation of the soil? In my opinion there can be no happier...is stored with wealth. It abounds in pigs, in kids, in lambs, in milk, in poultry, in cheese, in honey. Nothing can be more profitable, nothing more beautiful... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1903 - 844 páginas
...soil. Can these men be called unhappy who delight in the soil's cultivation ? In my opinion therecan be no happier life, not only because the tillage, of the earth is salutary to sill, hut from the pleasure it yields. The whole establishment of a good" and assiduous husbandman... | |
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... spent. The earth does not rebel against authority ; it never gives back but with usury what it receives. The gains of husbandry are not what exclusively commend it. I am charmed with the nature and productive virtues of the soil. Can those old men... 
