Tilney was principally a lawyer, although variously described as magister, clerk, bachelor-of-law, esquire, gentleman, and husbandman. |
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Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. |
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It is not the branch that accomplishes anything, but everything depends on the vine and the husbandman. |
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Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing. |
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But you do not find the good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow. |
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Among the divinities that dwelt on Mount Olympus, none was more friendly to the husbandman than Demeter, goddess of corn. |
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The right of the husbandman was a share right, his name was Geneat or sharer in the vill. |
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He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet. |
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