 ... rather against that practice, and have given several reasons for your judgment, which deserve to be very well considered. In order to know how we ought to plough, we ought to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 285by Edmund Burke - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Authors, English - 1844 - 552 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil; the last and ultimate end, so...contents which are suspended in that great universal menstruum, some, possibly all, of which, are necessary for the nourishment of the plants. By ploughing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 678 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...contents, which are suspended in that great universal menstruum, some, possibly all, of which, are necessary for the nourishment of the plants. By ploughing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 572 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so far as regards the plants, is to faeilitate the pushing of the blade upwards, and the shooting of the roots in all the inferior directions.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1886 - 924 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...regards the plants, is to facilitate the pushing of the blnde upwards, and the shooting of the roots in all the inferior directions. There is further proposed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 568 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...contents which are suspended in that great universal menstruum, some, possibly all, of which, are necessary for the nourishment of the plants. By ploughing... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...plants, is to facilitate the pushing of the blade upward, and the shooting of the roots in all the inferior directions. There is further proposed a more... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...admission of external influences — the rain, the sun, the air, charged with all those heterogeneous contents, some, possibly all, of which are necessary... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 312 pages
...know what end it is we propose ' to ourselves in that operation. The first and ' instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last ' and ultimate end,...plants, ' is to facilitate the pushing of the blade up' wards, and the shooting of the roots in all the ' inferior directions. There is further proposed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 568 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...contents which are suspended in that great universal menstruum, some, possibly all, of which, are necessary for the nourishment of the plants. By ploughing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1890 - 588 pages
...to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so...of the roots in all the inferior directions. There ia further proposed a more ready admission of external influences, the rain, the sun, and the air,... | |
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