Husbandman

A Husbandman is the Maister of the earth, turning sterillitie and barrainenesse, into fruitfulnesse and increase, whereby all common wealths are maintained and upheld, it is his labour which giueth bread to all men and maketh vs forsake the societie of beasts drinking vpon the water springs, féeding vs with a much more nourishing liquor.

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

God in the scriptures giueth many blessings, for his labours of all other are most excellent, and therefore to be a Husbandman is to be a good man; whence the auntients did baptise, and wée euen to this day doe seriously obserue to call euery Husbandman, both in our ordinary conference and euery particular salutation, goodman such a one, a title

The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments Gervase Markham

The stars of the Husbandman were the signal for those successive agricultural labors on which the annual produce of the soil depended; and they came in consequence to be considered and hailed, in Egypt and

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

Husbandman will attend on you, while I (with some speede) shall make ready dinner.

The Decameron 2004

Much she needs the culture of the Husbandman, and well does she repay it.

Union and Communion 1832-1905 2000

Both the Chief Husbandman and the Chief Guildsman were old enough to be his grand sires and the main difference between them was that the Chief Husbandman was weathered and wrinkled with years in the field, his face resembling a dried apple, while the Chief Guildsman wore his years more lightly.

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Both the Chief Husbandman and the Chief Guildsman were old enough to be his grand sires and the main difference between them was that the Chief Husbandman was weathered and wrinkled with years in the field, his face resembling a dried apple, while the Chief Guildsman wore his years more lightly.

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Harpe to _Apollo_: and yet more gratefull, then fertill grounde, full eares, and plentifull yeelding, to the labouring Husbandman.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

I have given extracts from his "English Husbandman," to shew his love for flowers.

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

The missionary agencies of Calvinistic Holland seem incapable of practical sympathy with the island people; but half a loaf is better than no bread, and in any form of Christian faith the Heavenly Husbandman scatters grains of wheat among the tares, that all His wandering children may reap a share of harvest gold even from a stubborn and sterile soil.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings