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			 And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears 
of corn, or two blades of read more 
	 And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears 
of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground 
where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and 
do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of 
politicians put together." 
		
 
	
			 "Ten acres and a mule."  
	 "Ten acres and a mule." 
		
 
	
			 With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are read more 
	 With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. 
		
 
	
			 He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is 
now fast rising read more 
	 He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is 
now fast rising from affluence to poverty. 
		
 
	
			 Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of 
mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields read more 
	 Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of 
mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, 
free from all anxieties of gain.
 [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,
  Ut prisca gens mortalium,
   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
    Solutus omni faenore.] 
		
 
	
			 Look up! the wide extended plain
 Is billowy with its ripened grain,
  And on the summer winds read more 
	 Look up! the wide extended plain
 Is billowy with its ripened grain,
  And on the summer winds are rolled
   Its waves of emerald and gold. 
		
 
	
			 When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses 
are kept, a cow is kept for read more 
	 When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses 
are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. 
		
 
	
			 Ill husbandry braggeth
 To go with the best:
  Good husbandry baggeth
   Up gold in read more 
	 Ill husbandry braggeth
 To go with the best:
  Good husbandry baggeth
   Up gold in his chest.
   - Thomas Tusser, 
		
 
	
			 Our rural ancestors with little blest,
 Patient of labour when the end was rest,
  Indulg'd the day read more 
	 Our rural ancestors with little blest,
 Patient of labour when the end was rest,
  Indulg'd the day that hous'd their annual grain,
   With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.