Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British GuianaSir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway J. Thomson, 1897 Reports and proceedings of the society are included in each volume. |
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Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of ... Volledige weergave - 1898 |
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acre per annum Agricultural and Commercial Agricultural Committee appear average Barbados Bellairs birds Botanic Gardens Bourbon British Guiana cacao canes per acre cent coast colony colour Commercial Society Committee of Correspondence cotton crop cultivation Deflection Demerara Directors eggs estates exhibits experiments favour feet fibre Georgetown give Government grown hhds honour increase Indian interest Island J. B. Harrison John Junor juice Jute labour land letter lime manures matter meeting ment Mixed minerals Museum Nectandra negroes nest nitrate of soda nitrogen obtained phosphates plant canes plantains planters potash present President prize produce RAMPERSAUD rice Royal Agricultural saccharine samples Secretary seed sent snakes soil species specimens sucrose sugar cane sulphate of ammonia superphosphate Thomas Daly timber Timehri tion tobacco tons of canes trees Trinidad tropical varieties of canes West Indies wood yield دو وو
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Pagina 316 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Pagina 321 - Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now...
Pagina 316 - Now, all amid the rigours of the year, In the wild depth of Winter, while without The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat, Between the groaning forest and the shore Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, A rural, shelter'd, solitary scene; Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join, To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead...
Pagina 320 - The sunrise broken into scarlet shafts Among the palms and ferns and precipices ; The blaze upon the waters to the east; The blaze upon his island overhead; The blaze upon the waters to the west; Then the great stars that globed themselves in heaven, The hollower-bellowing ocean, and again The scarlet shafts of sunrise — but no sail.
Pagina 317 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Pagina 316 - He tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, which some formall persons were scandalized at, but I thinke 'twas well and properly donne, to settle his spirits.
Pagina 320 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Pagina 321 - I love a neat library, too, but 'tis, I think, the inside of a book should recommend it most to us. Lord Fop. That, I must confess, I am not altogether so fand of, far to my mind, the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain.
Pagina 321 - He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Pagina 315 - ... her breath is more sweet than a gentle south-west wind, which comes creeping over flowery fields and shadowed waters in the extreme heat of summer...