Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1W. Blackwood and Sons, 1851 - 415 páginas |
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... less food than is necessary to support two people - since there is a large importation of American flour . But , in England and Scotland , only one - fourth of the population is engaged in , or dependent upon , agricultural employment ...
... less food than is necessary to support two people - since there is a large importation of American flour . But , in England and Scotland , only one - fourth of the population is engaged in , or dependent upon , agricultural employment ...
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... less stony tracts occur , labour and industry had overcome nature , and compelled rich herbage and moderate corn to spring up in their stead . It was interesting to observe how the absence of human labour for a few years gave again ...
... less stony tracts occur , labour and industry had overcome nature , and compelled rich herbage and moderate corn to spring up in their stead . It was interesting to observe how the absence of human labour for a few years gave again ...
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... less humid and changeful climate than the Atlantic slope of the Ardoise hills . Here I first saw a field of growing Indian corn ; and , as we stopped to change horses , had an opportunity of walking into and examining it . But I could ...
... less humid and changeful climate than the Atlantic slope of the Ardoise hills . Here I first saw a field of growing Indian corn ; and , as we stopped to change horses , had an opportunity of walking into and examining it . But I could ...
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... less labour , and less patience and perse- verance , are necessary to success in the New World than in our part at least of the Old . The chief difference is , that there is room enough in the broad lands of America for the full ...
... less labour , and less patience and perse- verance , are necessary to success in the New World than in our part at least of the Old . The chief difference is , that there is room enough in the broad lands of America for the full ...
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... less , meta- morphic ( Silurian and Cambrian ) slates . The surface of the former has been crumbled by the action of the weather sufficiently to form over the greater part of the North Mountains a considerable depth of soil , which ...
... less , meta- morphic ( Silurian and Cambrian ) slates . The surface of the former has been crumbled by the action of the weather sufficiently to form over the greater part of the North Mountains a considerable depth of soil , which ...
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Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1 James Finlay Weir Johnston Visualização integral - 1851 |
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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.