The Home and Foreign Review, Volume 2Williams and Norgate, 1863 |
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... important , and the most widely distributed . It is a native of Mexico , and probably of some of the West - India Islands . From Mexico it was introduced into the United States ; and the Southern planters are still in the habit of ...
... important , and the most widely distributed . It is a native of Mexico , and probably of some of the West - India Islands . From Mexico it was introduced into the United States ; and the Southern planters are still in the habit of ...
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... important of the cotton regions is the " pine barrens , " a belt of sand from 30 to 100 miles broad , which lies between the coast and the higher lands in the interior . It is almost wholly covered with pine woods , and although at one ...
... important of the cotton regions is the " pine barrens , " a belt of sand from 30 to 100 miles broad , which lies between the coast and the higher lands in the interior . It is almost wholly covered with pine woods , and although at one ...
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... important from the extreme fineness of the particles of which the soil is composed . Few of these are found to measure more thanth of an inch in diameter , and stones or gravel are never met with . The roots are thus allowed a free ...
... important from the extreme fineness of the particles of which the soil is composed . Few of these are found to measure more thanth of an inch in diameter , and stones or gravel are never met with . The roots are thus allowed a free ...
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... important , as in 1856 and 1858 these same islands did not raise a single pound . Of these four sources , -India , Egypt , Brazil , and the West Indies , -the first is by far the most important , both with respect to the quantity ...
... important , as in 1856 and 1858 these same islands did not raise a single pound . Of these four sources , -India , Egypt , Brazil , and the West Indies , -the first is by far the most important , both with respect to the quantity ...
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... importance of a rotation of crops is well understood , and cotton is rarely planted oftener than once in three or four years . In some of the more important cotton districts , such as Berar and Broach , the American method of planting ...
... importance of a rotation of crops is well understood , and cotton is rarely planted oftener than once in three or four years . In some of the more important cotton districts , such as Berar and Broach , the American method of planting ...
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Page 134 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 621 - For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be...
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Page 502 - But if the fossil memorials have been correctly interpreted— if we have here before us at the northern base of the Pyrenees a sepulchral vault with skeletons of human beings, consigned by friends and relatives to their last restingplace — if we have also at the portal of the tomb the relics of funeral feasts, and within it indications of viands destined for the use of the departed on their way to a land of spirits; while among the funeral gifts are weapons wherewith in other fields to chase the...
Page 672 - tis Death itself there dies. EPITAPH. STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Page 353 - I dare boldly eay, that never any particular person, either before or since, did build any stone or brick house for his private habitation, but such as have lately obtained estates, according to the course of the law of England.
Page 135 - Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the Just; let the earth be opened and bud forth a Savior."* Then the Son of God quitted the eternal mansions of His Father, and " appeared,
Page 353 - Irish, for they used to lay bonaght upon their people, and never gave their soldier any other pay. But when the English had learned it, they used it with more insolence, and made it more intolerable...
Page 406 - Well, there are several things which I never will tolerate ; I will begin by ourselves. I will not tolerate the permanent occupation of Constantinople by the Russians ; having said this, I will say that it never shall be held by the English, or French, or any other great nation.
Page 592 - I conclude as follows : — if there is a form of Christianity now in the world which is accused of gross superstition, of borrowing its rites and customs from the heathen, and of ascribing to forms and ceremonies an occult virtue ; — a religion which is considered to burden and enslave the mind by its requisitions, to address itself to the weak-minded and ignorant, to be supported by sophistry and imposture, and to contradict reason and exalt mere irrational faith; — a religion which impresses...