Lectures and Addresses - Couverture souple

Barry, Redmond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1144889324 ISBN 13 : 9781144889324

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ladibs and Gbntlemen, Agriculture (the history of which I have selected to addre you on this evening), is an occupation which may justly be ennobled with the title of the parent of most of the numerous subdivisions of employment which call forth the industry of civilised man, or elicit the skilful application of inventive genius, the foundation and groundwork of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art, the laborious exertions of the Agriculturist supply those useful commodities which relieve the demands of our natural exigencies, gratify those calls which are collateral and adventitious, and indulge those desires which ideas of comfort have created, as well as those generated by luxury. It is from, the connexion which exists between this useful art, wid many of-the highest branches of mechanical science, by which its various operations are assisted and expedited, as well as by which its products are with wonderfully greater facility than by ordinary means reduced from the raw material and rendered available to suit the wants and wishes of mankind, that the subject of Agriculture appeared to me well calculated for a lecture before this institution :and while I lamented my want of practical acquaintance with the subject as it relates to this country, I consoled myself with the hope that, were I to deliver a brief outline of the History of the A rt, with occasional deductions in the course of it, I might meet the indulgence of the members, and perhaps have the good fortune to draw the attention of some one present to instruct the community on this most useful of arts at some future period, with a lecture more deserving of your favourable consideration. The investigation of this subject naturally leads us to the contemplation of man, in the unsophisticated state of primeval sim plicity. His desires limited to the gratification of t
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1144889324
• ISBN 13: 9781144889324
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible