Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... acres , form a sort of headland on the bay . A gravel walk , eight or ten feet wide , leads from the lodge to the house , and , turning round it , through the wood behind , brings you to an open lawn , ( A ) sloping abruptly to the ...
... acres , form a sort of headland on the bay . A gravel walk , eight or ten feet wide , leads from the lodge to the house , and , turning round it , through the wood behind , brings you to an open lawn , ( A ) sloping abruptly to the ...
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... acres , and is said to be equal to the base of the largest of the pyramids of Egypt . The buildings round are plain houses . I have not observed any thing in this day's ramble above that rank in architecture , or any public buildings of ...
... acres , and is said to be equal to the base of the largest of the pyramids of Egypt . The buildings round are plain houses . I have not observed any thing in this day's ramble above that rank in architecture , or any public buildings of ...
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... acres , slightly uneven , having here and there groups of old trees , some of them of very large size and venerable appearance , but too thinly scattered , and leaving great spaces entirely naked . New plantations are making , but they ...
... acres , slightly uneven , having here and there groups of old trees , some of them of very large size and venerable appearance , but too thinly scattered , and leaving great spaces entirely naked . New plantations are making , but they ...
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... acre , which 40 or 50 years ago produced only 15 and 20 shillings In other places , the increase is much greater . The pay of labourers was , 50 years ago , something less than a shilling a - day , now 2s . 6d . or Ss . a - day ...
... acre , which 40 or 50 years ago produced only 15 and 20 shillings In other places , the increase is much greater . The pay of labourers was , 50 years ago , something less than a shilling a - day , now 2s . 6d . or Ss . a - day ...
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... of grass ; the latter are seen popping in and out of their holes in every direction . The Norfolk sheep give the best Eng- lish wool , next to the South Down ; the price 35s . 182 NORFOLK ABBEY OF CASTLE ACRE . for 28 lb.
... of grass ; the latter are seen popping in and out of their holes in every direction . The Norfolk sheep give the best Eng- lish wool , next to the South Down ; the price 35s . 182 NORFOLK ABBEY OF CASTLE ACRE . for 28 lb.
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Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
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Página 367 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 136 - Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time 'to do't. — Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Página 153 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.
Página 136 - tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Página 134 - Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time, Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem ; Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i
Página 134 - Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 322 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
Página 173 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Página 134 - Like the poor cat i' the adage ? Macbeth. Prithee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady Macbeth. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would 50 Be so much more the man.
Página 222 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...