. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ire-?anthe. iooj, STATISTICS OF AGRICULTUHF:. Tart IV. The miners at Leadhllls have a regular library mod reading society; and the works they make choice of are nol onlj hisl . voya • j, travel., ,\c. but even works ol taate, such as the British classics, and best .1 romances The degree towhich knowledge will prevail among any class ol labouring men
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ire-?anthe. iooj, STATISTICS OF AGRICULTUHF:. Tart IV. The miners at Leadhllls have a regular library mod reading society; and the works they make choice of are nol onlj hisl . voya • j, travel., ,\c. but even works ol taate, such as the British classics, and best .1 romances The degree towhich knowledge will prevail among any class ol labouring menwill depend jointly on their own ambition, on the demand for knowledge, or the reputation in wnusn it isheld, and on the opportunities of acquiring it n person, with little native activitv, will neverdesire to know more than whal enables him to mpply the ordinary wants ol life ; but where the workmenof anv art ..re required to h ive te» hnical knowledge of any particular kind, they will be found invariablyto possess it Tims carpenten and mas equire some knowledge of the mechanical principles ol archi-tecture and working engineers of the strength of materials j and these kinds o knowledge are acquiredbv thciii without an hours interrupti
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