Indignation has often been expressed at the moral code of savages, which permits the man to lie in his hammock while the woman cultivates the maize; but, excepting the difference in the colour of the skin, the substitution of dirty white for coppery redness, there is really no distinction.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
I cannot help thinking, however, that the man that stays at home, and cultivates the comforts and pleasures daily springing up around him, stands the best chance for happiness.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Even then, if everybody owned the farm which he cultivates, those who owned the better pieces would get rent, because they would get more produce.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons