The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England: with Letters from Ireland: Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographical History, Volumen1J. Ainsworth, 1852 |
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... hundred yards from the churchyard , and is altogether , in situation , style , and adorn- ments , so out of keeping with the place where the body lies , ( so I thought , ) that I hastened away from it to find , or ima- gined to find ...
... hundred yards from the churchyard , and is altogether , in situation , style , and adorn- ments , so out of keeping with the place where the body lies , ( so I thought , ) that I hastened away from it to find , or ima- gined to find ...
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... Hundreds , the stewardship of which a member of Parliament nominally accepts from the crown when he wishes to resign his seat . When we advance to the front of these hills , we look down on the Vale of Aylesbury , an extensive tract of ...
... Hundreds , the stewardship of which a member of Parliament nominally accepts from the crown when he wishes to resign his seat . When we advance to the front of these hills , we look down on the Vale of Aylesbury , an extensive tract of ...
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... hundred feet , it again declines , and forms the banks of other valleys . And here , where we now stand , we have these heights ploughed to the top on our right , while on our left are woods of goodly timber , stretching to the distance ...
... hundred feet , it again declines , and forms the banks of other valleys . And here , where we now stand , we have these heights ploughed to the top on our right , while on our left are woods of goodly timber , stretching to the distance ...
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... hundred years ago was so very bad , the crops , the cultivators , and the people all so very poor , that the landowners were driven by necessity to do some- thing for a reformation . The farmers being not only much poorer than those of ...
... hundred years ago was so very bad , the crops , the cultivators , and the people all so very poor , that the landowners were driven by necessity to do some- thing for a reformation . The farmers being not only much poorer than those of ...
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... hundred tracts the moment it escaped into the common . When the law of necessity came in force , as , for instance , at a declivity , or the crossing of a marsh or brook , these tracts re - united for common safety ; but as soon as ...
... hundred tracts the moment it escaped into the common . When the law of necessity came in force , as , for instance , at a declivity , or the crossing of a marsh or brook , these tracts re - united for common safety ; but as soon as ...
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Página 78 - In witness whereof the parties above named have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written...
Página 246 - Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Página 197 - When lime, whether freshly burnt or slacked, is mixed with any moist fibrous vegetable matter, there is a strong action between the lime and the vegetable matter, and they form a kind of compost together, of which a part is usually soluble in water. By this kind of operation lime renders matter, which was before comparatively inert, nutritive...
Página 395 - Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that is humble might hope for it here...
Página 84 - John Bright is, in talent, a second Peel ; he was born in the same atmosphere. Let his career be observed — he has entered upon it.
Página 219 - The advantages of trenching over summer fallow are, in my opinion, very decided, as it is not only cheaper, but, as far as I can yet judge, much more effectual. I am so satisfied of this, not only from the experiments above noticed, but from the apparent condition of the land after it has carried the crop, that I have this autumn cultivated about a hundred acres with the spade, and the crops at present are very promising.
Página 202 - Since the period when the last statistical account was written, the state of the parish has been much improved ; farms, which were entirely pastoral, now bear luxuriant crops, the fields have been neatly inclosed with...
Página 600 - A truism," you may exclaim in Manchester ; " we know all this : tell us something new." Were this paper only to be read in Manchester, or within fifty miles of it, what has just been said, and what is about to be said, would probably be omitted.
Página 191 - ... there, and a few more, stunted and denuded of their ornamental branches, beyond, this park, with its fine valleys and finer eminences, once so magnificently wooded, now so shabbily bare, opened upon our view. The road went towards the left and again wheeled to the right. On the brow of a gentle slope stood the castle, like a huge ill-shaped barn — grey, treeless, shelterless, and in most part roofless.
Página 218 - ... could be had ; and as, in all agricultural operations, losing time is losing money, — as the rent must be paid whether the land is carrying a crop or not ; so that in taking one year to fallow the land, and another to grow the crop, two years' rent must be charged against the crop, or at least there must be a rent charged against the rotation of crops for the year the land was fallowed. As I felt satisfied that, by trenching with the spade, the land would derive all the advantage of a summer...