The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 15D.J. Powers & Company, 1863 |
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... never fully repair the injury inflicted upon the struggling race . We are to - day fighting the world's greatest bat- tle ; let us not be mean enough to think we can settle it upon the narrow and contemptible ground of temporary ...
... never fully repair the injury inflicted upon the struggling race . We are to - day fighting the world's greatest bat- tle ; let us not be mean enough to think we can settle it upon the narrow and contemptible ground of temporary ...
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... never known an wrote you a short sermon in relation to corres- orchard to flourish that was continually in pondents and for your own special use , which grass , no matter what the other circumstances you took the responsibility to ...
... never known an wrote you a short sermon in relation to corres- orchard to flourish that was continually in pondents and for your own special use , which grass , no matter what the other circumstances you took the responsibility to ...
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... never equals the de- mand , besides many are too delicate and tender for long carriage to market . These early sorts , then , should be chiefly planted in the garden . For the sake of novel- ty and ornament , the largest and the high ...
... never equals the de- mand , besides many are too delicate and tender for long carriage to market . These early sorts , then , should be chiefly planted in the garden . For the sake of novel- ty and ornament , the largest and the high ...
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... never be effac- ed ; that by some careless word or thoughtless act , he may cause a single mind to be directed in a wrong course , is well calculated to make the teacher feel that his work is one of no or- dinary importance , and that ...
... never be effac- ed ; that by some careless word or thoughtless act , he may cause a single mind to be directed in a wrong course , is well calculated to make the teacher feel that his work is one of no or- dinary importance , and that ...
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... never - visit the school - room to stimulate and encourage teacher and child- ren . Practically , to the citizens of such a neighborhood , the district school is a sort of matter of course , and is accordingly left to take care of ...
... never - visit the school - room to stimulate and encourage teacher and child- ren . Practically , to the citizens of such a neighborhood , the district school is a sort of matter of course , and is accordingly left to take care of ...
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Page 280 - And the proud man sighed, with a secret pain, "Ah, that I were free again ! "Free as when I rode that day. Where the barefoot maiden raked her hay." She wedded a man unlearned and poor, And many children played round her door. But care and sorrow, and childbirth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little spring brook fall...
Page 197 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Page 196 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Page 299 - The design of the institution, in fulfillment of the injunction of the constitution, is to afford thorough instruction in agriculture and the natural sciences connected therewith. To effect that object most completely the institution shall combine physical with intellectual education and shall be a high seminary of learning in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue, and finish a course of study terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and...
Page 115 - If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten to all eternity.
Page 343 - The fellow laughed, thinking, no doubt, I was joking with him. " What have you got? said another; I gave him the same answer. When they were dividing the spoil, I was called to an eminence where the chief stood. " What property have you got, my little fellow ?" said he. "I have told two of your people already," I replied; "I have forty dinars sewed in my garments." He ordered them to be ripped open, and found my money.
Page 280 - But low of cattle and song of birds, And health and quiet and loving words." But he thought of his sisters proud and cold, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone.
Page 150 - Alas ! how many examples are now present to my memory, of young men the most anxiously and expensively be-school-mastered, be-tutored, be-lectured, any thing but educated ; who have received arms and ammunition, instead of skill, strength, and courage ; varnished rather than polished ; perilously over-civilized, and most pitiably uncultivated ! And all from inattention to the method dictated by nature herself, to the simple truth, that as the forms in all organized existence, so must all true and...
Page 74 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Page 280 - He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine. My father should wear a broadcloth coat, My brother should sail a painted boat.