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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843
Author: Various
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BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE
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No. CCCXXX. APRIL, 1843. VOL. LIII.
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CONTENTS
THE PRACTISE OF AGRICULTURE,
POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER.--NO. VII.,
THE LAST OF THE SHEPHERDS,
THE FOUNDING OF THE BELL. BY CHARLES MACKAY,
AMMALAT BEK. A TRUE TALE OF THE CAUCASUS FROM THE
RUSSIAN OF MARLINSKY.--CHAPTER III.,
OCCUPATION OF ADEN,
SONNET,
CALEB STUKLEY. PART XIII.,
IMAGINARY CONVERSATION, BETWEEN MR. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
AND THE EDITOR OF BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE,
THE BURIAL MARCH OF DUNDEE,
LORD ELLENBOROUGH AND THE WHIGS,
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EDINBURGH:
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, 45, GEORGE STREET;
AND 22, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
_To whom Communications (post-paid) may be addressed_.
SOLD ALSO BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, EDINBURGH.
BLACKWOOD'S
EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.
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No. CCCXXX. APRIL, 1843. VOL. LIII.
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THE PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE
Skilful practice is applied science. This fact is illustrated in
every chapter of the excellent and comprehensive work now before us
[1].
In a previous article, (see the number for June 1842,) we
illustrated at some length the connexion which now exists, and which
hereafter must become more intimate, between practical agriculture
and modern science. We showed by what secret and silent steps the
progress and gradual diffusion of modern scientific discoveries had
imperceptibly led to great improvements in the agriculture of the
present century--by what other more open and manifest applications
of sc
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