George Washington: Farmer: Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural ActivitiesBobbs-Merrill, 1915 - 336 strani |
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George Washington: Farmer: Being an Account of His Home Life and ... Paul Leland Haworth Omejen predogled - 2019 |
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Stran 241 - No, my fears answered Yes. I called to mind the days of my youth, and found they had long since fled to return no more ; that I was now descending the hill I had been...
Stran 298 - ... idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my money in charity, to the amount of forty or fifty pounds a year, when you think it well bestowed.
Stran 308 - The usual time of sitting at table, a walk, and tea, bring me within the dawn of candlelight ; previous to which, if not prevented by company, I resolve, that, as soon as the glimmering taper supplies the place of the great luminary...
Stran 217 - I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by marriage with the dower negroes, as to excite the most painful sensations, if not disagreeable consequences...
Stran 218 - I give him, as a testimony of my sense of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services during the revolutionary war.
Stran 4 - now, I believe, fixed at this seat with an agreeable ' partner for life, and I hope to find more happiness in ' retirement than I ever experienced amidst the wide
Stran 224 - I inform you that yesterday removed the Sweet Innocent Girl Entered into a more happy & peaceful abode than any she has met with in the afflicted Path she hitherto has trod.
Stran 254 - This country abounds in buffaloes and wild game of all kinds ; as also in all kinds of wild fowl, there being in the bottoms a great many small, grassy ponds, or lakes, which are full of swans, geese, and ducks of different kinds.
Stran 26 - I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have...
Stran 58 - I do not find touched by either of the gentlemen whose letters are sent to you, namely, that the aim of the farmers in this country (if they can be called farmers) is, not to make the most they can from the land, which is, or has been cheap, but the most of the labour, which is dear ; the consequence of which has been, much ground has been scratched over, and none cultivated or improved as it ought to have been...