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 Biographic History, Volume 1J. Ainsworth, 1852 - Free trade |
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Page 19
... half of it so good as the middling land of Bucking- hamshire , very little of it , if any , so good as the Vale of Aylesbury ; 20,000 acres are uncultivated , and 29,400 are unprofitable ; -Haddingtonshire ( or East Lothian ) contains ...
... half of it so good as the middling land of Bucking- hamshire , very little of it , if any , so good as the Vale of Aylesbury ; 20,000 acres are uncultivated , and 29,400 are unprofitable ; -Haddingtonshire ( or East Lothian ) contains ...
Page 23
... half - employed , and less than half - fed labourers were crawl- ing about , asking , in return to every question asked of them , for " something to get a drop of beer , " adding that " times be so terrible bad that they couldn't get half ...
... half - employed , and less than half - fed labourers were crawl- ing about , asking , in return to every question asked of them , for " something to get a drop of beer , " adding that " times be so terrible bad that they couldn't get half ...
Page 26
... half the length into six tails . ) When done with the spelling book , the New Testament , and the tawse . When done with the New Testament , Barrie's Collection , ( of select pieces , ) and -- the tawse . Accompanying that , psalms on ...
... half the length into six tails . ) When done with the spelling book , the New Testament , and the tawse . When done with the New Testament , Barrie's Collection , ( of select pieces , ) and -- the tawse . Accompanying that , psalms on ...
Page 32
... half - past seven in the evening , just quit of them in the stable ; and further , that much of the rough country over which I had come was Lord Shaftesbury's , and that , should it be enclosed , much more of it would become his ...
... half - past seven in the evening , just quit of them in the stable ; and further , that much of the rough country over which I had come was Lord Shaftesbury's , and that , should it be enclosed , much more of it would become his ...
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... half - acre allotments , at the moderate rent of twelve shillings each , which is , however , more by four or five shillings the acre than the farmers pay . Lord Shaftesbury has also given a few allotments , but several families are ...
... half - acre allotments , at the moderate rent of twelve shillings each , which is , however , more by four or five shillings the acre than the farmers pay . Lord Shaftesbury has also given a few allotments , but several families are ...
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