Collected Papers (original and Reprinted) in Prose and Verse, 1842-1862John Murray, 1862 - 293 páginas |
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... farmers can manage to grow for our subsistence . They cannot rear oxen , sheep , or swine in such numbers as to bring meat within the reach of the lower class , because they have nothing to give them during winter ; and we eat rye ...
... farmers can manage to grow for our subsistence . They cannot rear oxen , sheep , or swine in such numbers as to bring meat within the reach of the lower class , because they have nothing to give them during winter ; and we eat rye ...
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... farming now revolves , M. Lavergne explains in his chapters on sheep and cattle the circumstances which have led to the wondrous amelioration of our domestic animals . In that section which treats of cattle , many instruc- tive ...
... farming now revolves , M. Lavergne explains in his chapters on sheep and cattle the circumstances which have led to the wondrous amelioration of our domestic animals . In that section which treats of cattle , many instruc- tive ...
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... farming mind , carry all before them ; thus a French traveller , naturally smitten with the desire of emulating our practice , and appreciating the merit of skilful adap- tation of " means to ends , " readily falls in with this ...
... farming mind , carry all before them ; thus a French traveller , naturally smitten with the desire of emulating our practice , and appreciating the merit of skilful adap- tation of " means to ends , " readily falls in with this ...
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... farmer , and we should like to see it taken up by our scientific class . Another theory , very lately started respecting the disease called " fingers and toes , " pre- valent among turnips chiefly , happens to proceed upon a somewhat ...
... farmer , and we should like to see it taken up by our scientific class . Another theory , very lately started respecting the disease called " fingers and toes , " pre- valent among turnips chiefly , happens to proceed upon a somewhat ...
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... farming " is wanting . The French eat but little meat , for want of more cattle and flocks and swine ; and they lack ... farmers occupying cold , moist mountainous tracts in France ( of which he indicates no small number would grow ...
... farming " is wanting . The French eat but little meat , for want of more cattle and flocks and swine ; and they lack ... farmers occupying cold , moist mountainous tracts in France ( of which he indicates no small number would grow ...
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Página 121 - ... by odious and unworthy names. On the contrary, we highly revere the principles on which you act, though we lament some of their effects. Armed as you are, we embrace you as our friends, and as our brethren, by the best and dearest ties of relation.
Página 106 - Lord B., Scott, and I dined at the Pellegrino ; before we went Lord B. read me what he has done of the third canto of ' Don Juan.' In the evening all went to the Opera together, and from thence at twelve o'clock to a sort of public-house, to drink hot punch ; forming a strange contrast to a dirty cobbler, whom we saw in a nice room delicately eating ice. Lord B. took me home in his gondola at two o'clock ; a beautiful moonlight, and the reflection...
Página 110 - This day ten years we were married, and, though Time has made his usual changes in us both, • we are still more like lovers than any married couples of the same standing I am acquainted with. Asked to dine at Rancliffe's, but dined at home alone with Bessy. This being Sunday, our dance, in celebration of the day, deferred till to-morrow. Received a letter yesterday from my dear father, which, notwithstanding the increased tremor...
Página 122 - Quoted an excellent mot of somebody to Fontenelle, on the latter saying that he flattered himself he had a good heart — " Yes, my dear Fontenelle, you have as good a heart as can be made out of brains." In talking with Hallam afterwards, I put it to him, why it was that this short way of expressing truths did not do with the world, often as it had been tried, even Rochefoucauld being kept alive chiefly by his ill-nature. There was in this one saying to Fontenelle all that I myself had expended...
Página 121 - Long as Sir Walter has attended me, he has never explained to me what ails me. I have a great mind to open his letter and see what he has stated of my case to the Bath physician.
Página 96 - Welleslcy spoke of the difficulty there was in the way, from the feelings the King most naturally entertained towards me, and from himself being the personal friend, of the King, but that, on further consideration, he saw he could do it without any reference to the other side of the Channel, and out...
Página 107 - From thence to the church of the Annunziata : heard mass sung, which was very fine. Whether it be my popish blood or my poetical feelings, nothing gives me more delight than the
Página 89 - I last night went to a little supper after the opera, where the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert were : I was introduced to her. » * • I dine with Lord Moira to-morrow, and go in the evening with Lady Charlotte to an assembly at the Countess of Cork's. I assure you I am serious in the idea of being at least for a fortnight incog.
Página 100 - Living in London is what I do not now like at all," he says to his mother (May, 1817).