Annual Report ..., Volume 5

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Contains the yearbook and annual report of the Department of Household Science and proceedings of the annual meeting of the Illinois Farmers' Institute.

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Page 96 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Page 371 - We may live without poetry, music, and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Page 169 - States, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 211 - Dollars, lawful money of the United States, to be paid to the said...
Page 128 - ... Affectionate and fair ; To solace all the woes of life, And all its joys to share. Of temper sweet, of yielding will, Of firm, yet placid mind, — With all my faults to love me still With sentiment refined. And as Time's car incessant runs, And Fortune fills my store, I want of daughters and of sons From eight to half a score. I want (alas ! can mortal dare Such bliss on earth to crave?) That all the girls be chaste and fair, The boys all wise and brave.
Page 127 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Page 369 - It means the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and of Calypso, and of Helen, and of Rebekah, and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms, and spices; and of all that is healing and sweet in fields and groves, and savory in meats; it means carefulness, and inventiveness, and watchfulness, and willingness, and readiness of appliance; it means the economy of your greatgrandmothers, and the science of modern chemists ; it means much tasting, and no wasting; it...
Page 492 - is made up of action and endurance, and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance. But the physical workers are not the only true workers. The lives of thought do not lie outside this division, for true thought is undemonstrative action. . . To pass life in indolence, in a state of moral coma, is degrading, for life is only ennobled by work.
Page 170 - ... as their free and voluntary act " for the uses and purposes therein set forth, including the release and waiver of the right of homestead.80 GIVEN under my hand and Notarial Seal, this day of AD 19 [Affix Notarial Seal here] §1 Notary Public.
Page 128 - I want (who does not want ?) a wife, Affectionate and fair, To solace all the woes of life, And all its joys to share ; Of temper sweet, of yielding will, Of firm yet placid mind ; With all my faults to love me still, With sentiments refined.

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