"Know that each acre of fallow ought to……" — Robert Grosseteste
"Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on."
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Robert Grosseteste
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22 Quotes by Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste has 22 quotes on this site.
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In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric…
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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the…
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Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within…
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Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not…
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Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and…
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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you…
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Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel,…
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The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and…
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If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the…
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And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and…
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This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear…
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It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be…
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More Acre Quotes
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and…
— Samuel Beckett
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
— George A. Sheehan
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
— Jean de Joinville
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— Red Auerbach
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives…
— Orison Swett Marden
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far…
— Denis Hayes
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
— William Shakespeare
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There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield…
— Henry Ford
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I was in Australia....Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den....think of the parties.
— Bill Hicks
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All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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