United States or Slovenia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
What is Germany doing but that! And an enormously heavy rifle it is, costing just seven times as much as all other national expenditures together; in short, it costs seven marks of soldier to protect every one mark of plough. I admit frankly the horror and the absurdity of all this; but as an argument for disarmament, "it does not lie," as the lawyers phrase it.
Besides, you've got to decide what education IS. The man who knows how to plough a field rightly is as usefully educated as the man who knows how to read a book, in my opinion." "Education," interposed a strong voice, "is first to learn one's place in the world and then know how to keep it!" All eyes turned towards the head of the table.
"We are come at last to the two pictures in which, according to my opinion, history and poetry are happily blended with landscape . One represents the moment when Cincinnatus is invited by the consuls to leave the plough, in order to take the command of the Roman armies.
Our mariners hung over rail, talking, talking. "What is it and where will it end? Mayhap presently we can not plough it!" I was again and again to admire how for forty years he had stored sea-knowledge. It was not only what those gray eyes had seen, or those rather large, well molded ears had heard, or that powerful and nervous hand had touched.
It is, indeed, the people who have altered more than the surface of the country. Hard as the farmer may work, and plough and sow with engine and drill, the surface of the land does not much vary; but the farmer himself and the farmer's man are quite another race to what they were.
"Wouldn't I like to be sitting in the 'Cupping-Glass' before a horse-steak with onions!" he said. By this time the afternoon was well advanced. They broke sticks out of a hedge and went on steadily, following ditches and dikes as best they could. The plough was being driven over the fields, backward and forward, turning up the black earth, while crows and sea-birds fought in the fresh furrows.
Now, 'twould be a delightful party if you two would join. What do you say, Wynn? Come, lay by your axe, and recreate yourself for a week, man. Arthur looked a very decided acceptance of the proposition, but Robert shook his head. 'Couldn't leave the place, said he, smiling; 'too much to be done. 'Nonsense; the trees will stand till your return, and you can't plough through four feet of snow.
To restore the old home, to find himself again among his kinsmen and friends, contentedly sharing their simple, wholesome life, to plough his own acres and see the smoke curling upward from his own hearthstone were not these things, after all, the actualities of life? was he to be always turning his back upon them to grasp at clouds mirrored in running water, shadows that ever eluded his grasp?
"'See what pretty playthings, mother! cries the Giant's daughter, as she unties her apron, and shows her a plough, and horses, and a peasant.
"I'd rather trust in a good straight left." "All right, then. I'll see Acton now, and bring him to the point." "Do, and let me have the result." Phil swung off in that cool, level-headed fashion which is peculiarly his own. He had thought the matter out thoroughly in that five minutes' brown study, and now that he had put his hand to the plough he would not look back.
Word Of The Day