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They cultivated only those arts which could add splendor to the nation, to the neglect of those which supported it – They neglected Trade & substantial Manufacture ... but does it follow that a total revolution is necessary that because we have given ourselves up too much to the ornaments of life, we will now have none at all ". When attending a dinner at Holland House, Fox's niece Caroline was sat next to Reynolds and " burst out into glorification of the Revolution – and was grievously chilled and checked by her neighbour's cautious and unsympathetic tone ".
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They have long been cultivated in Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and southeast Asia.
They are simple in some commonly cultivated species ; in others they are pinnately toothed, or pinnate, sometimes multiple pinnate and dissected.
They cultivated six-row barley, einkorn and emmer wheat, jujubes and dates, and herded sheep, goats and cattle.
They agreed on a strategy to sequence the genome of cultivated, allotetraploid cotton.
They also cultivated various other foods including:
They also cultivated the cabbage tree, a plant endemic to New Zealand, and exploited wild foods such as fern root, which provided a starchy paste.
They cultivated crops of tobacco, but the venture failed financially.
They were until very lately the only people in New Mexico who cultivated the grape.
They shall destroy the coca bushes if illegally cultivated ” ( Article 26 ), and that, “ Coca leaf chewing must be abolished within twenty-five years from the coming into force of this Convention ” ( Article 49, 2. e ).
They introduced coffee as a commodity crop and used a system of forced labor to have it cultivated.
They were richer, and believed themselves more educated and cultivated than the Romaniotes, so they formed separate communities.
They set up villages — actually just a scattered group of thatch houses and cultivated gardens — where conditions favored farming.
They also cultivated wild rice, a crop that continues to be harvested and sold today by Ojibwa tribes in the region.
They were used for a food source by the indigenous peoples, and were both gathered in the wild and cultivated.
They cultivated chiefly cereals and grapes, and kept varied cattle.
They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.
They are cultivated commercially in India, Southeast Asia, southern China, Taiwan, and Florida.
They are believed to have originated around the Persian Gulf, and have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt, possibly as early as 4000 BCE.
They cultivated of corn, the first ever grown in the area, in 1799.
They cleared out and cultivated only an acre or so of land and grew corn for the family and the horses, and a few vegetables for family use, but hunting and trapping were their main interests.
They cultivated the marabout ’ s fields for a decade, and then returned all land profits earned from the groundnut production.
They lived a sheltered and bourgeois life, their home becoming a venue for cultivated gatherings in the tradition of the salon.
They also cultivated maize to supplement their diets and to store for winter eating.
They and only
They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.
They move only in accordance with what is in their natures.
They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.
They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.
They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
They may be claimed only by itemizing them on page 2 of Form 1040.
They serve not only as spokesmen for their areas, but they also contribute to top-level decision making.
They involve only simple mathematics that are taught in grammar school arithmetic classes.
They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.
They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.
They initiate campaigns, so to speak, even if this initiation is diffused among them, and their concerted action only psychologically organized.
They are in themselves neutral, and, so far as they get a moral quality, they get it only through being invested with it by the attitude of the onlooker.
They had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.
They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.
They got it over the side and clambered aboard only a few minutes before their schooner went under.
They discovered that, although 42 per cent of a sample of Catholic students and 15 per cent of the Protestants believed it important to live in accordance with the teachings of their religion, only 8 per cent of the Jewish students had this conviction.
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