Husbandman

(n.) The master of a family.

(n.) A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.

校对:伊薇特

• It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Away back in the dark ages, even before the Christian era, a Chinese husbandman, so we are told, made a wonderful discovery--that pork was good to eat. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Now, are not the best husbandmen those who are most devoted to husbandry? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But whether it was advantageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Columella. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But as husbandmen have less leisure than shepherds, they are not so frequently employed in those pastimes. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• And, as we said before, under such a constitution the same persons have too many callings--they are husbandmen, tradesmen, warriors, all in one. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• When a nation of mere husbandmen, therefore, goes to war, the whole people cannot take the field together. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Then more husbandmen and more artisans will be required? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The ordinary pastimes of such husbandmen are the same as those of shepherds, and are in the same manner the images of war. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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