Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... condition of the States and Provinces through which it was my fortune to travel . While I have expressed my opinions freely , I have endeavoured to avoid either ridicule or causeless reproach . And although I cannot hope that my remarks ...
... condition of the States and Provinces through which it was my fortune to travel . While I have expressed my opinions freely , I have endeavoured to avoid either ridicule or causeless reproach . And although I cannot hope that my remarks ...
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... condition of our own agricultural interest , there are few persons to whom some infor- mation in regard to that of America will not be acceptable . These observations on rural matters are also so mixed up with remarks on other subjects ...
... condition of our own agricultural interest , there are few persons to whom some infor- mation in regard to that of America will not be acceptable . These observations on rural matters are also so mixed up with remarks on other subjects ...
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... condition of much of the land in our own country , which the successive labours of many generations have now smoothed and levelled . When Cæsar invaded Britain , stony deserts might exist where the plough now easily cuts the soil ; so ...
... condition of much of the land in our own country , which the successive labours of many generations have now smoothed and levelled . When Cæsar invaded Britain , stony deserts might exist where the plough now easily cuts the soil ; so ...
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... condition even of the stonier parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick . The progress of agriculture in such districts is necessarily slow , but a thousand years will do for these countries infinitely more than it has done for us ...
... condition even of the stonier parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick . The progress of agriculture in such districts is necessarily slow , but a thousand years will do for these countries infinitely more than it has done for us ...
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... condition , as its friends would desire . By starting early in the morning , I was enabled to advance as far as Kentville before the departure of the stage , and to proceed along the valley to Annapolis , a distance of nearly seventy ...
... condition , as its friends would desire . By starting early in the morning , I was enabled to advance as far as Kentville before the departure of the stage , and to proceed along the valley to Annapolis , a distance of nearly seventy ...
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Página 419 - Every step in Scotland Is historical; the shades of the dead arise on every side; the very rocks breathe. Miss Strickland's talents as a writer, and turn of mind as an individual, in a peculiar manner fit her for painting a historical gallery of the most illustrious or dignified female characters in that land of chivalry and song."— Mtackwwid'e Mayasiite.
Página 196 - Having provided himself with a home, he commenced translating the record, by the gift and power of God, through the means of the Urim and Thummim ; and being a poor writer, he was under the necessity of employing a scribe to write the translation as it came from his mouth.
Página 195 - a curious instrument, called by the ancients the Urim and Thummim, which consisted of two transparent stones, clear as crystal, set in the two rims of a bow.
Página 421 - An extraordinary work, which has earned for itself a lasting place in the literature of the country, and within a few years found innumerable readers in every part of the globe. There is no book extant that treats so well of the period to the illustration of which Mr Alison's labours have been devoted. It exhibits great knowledge, patient research, indefatigable industry, and vast power.
Página 419 - Miss Strickland has not only been fortunate in the selection of her subject, but she has sustained to the full the high reputation for research which her previous writings have acquired. Her choice has indeed been evidently directed to that period when Scottish history assumes the highest interest, and connects itself most closely with the sympathies of the present day.