Arthur Young's Travels in France: During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789George Bell and Sons, 1906 - 366 pages |
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... means of incredible laboriousness and privation . The origin and development of peasant property throughout France can only be touched upon here . We must go very far back , farther even than the enfranchisement of the serfs by Louis le ...
... means of incredible laboriousness and privation . The origin and development of peasant property throughout France can only be touched upon here . We must go very far back , farther even than the enfranchisement of the serfs by Louis le ...
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... means the effects attributed to it . About one- third of these consisted of forest , which was added to the state , another third consisted of buildings and town property , the re- maining third , consisting of land , was sold in the ...
... means the effects attributed to it . About one- third of these consisted of forest , which was added to the state , another third consisted of buildings and town property , the re- maining third , consisting of land , was sold in the ...
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... means of advancement in any path of life that promised an independent support . So situated , I could hardly fail of following the maternal advice , to try what farming could do . I rented a small farm of my mother's , and farmed from ...
... means of advancement in any path of life that promised an independent support . So situated , I could hardly fail of following the maternal advice , to try what farming could do . I rented a small farm of my mother's , and farmed from ...
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... means of extricating himself from his distresses , at least if genius , spirit , and enter- prise can avail . " · His own diary for this year contains the following entry : " The same unremitting industry , the same anxiety ...
... means of extricating himself from his distresses , at least if genius , spirit , and enter- prise can avail . " · His own diary for this year contains the following entry : " The same unremitting industry , the same anxiety ...
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... mean an increase of fortune , and the future was as hard a problem to the popular author , now in the prime of life and the fulness of powers , as to the ambitious stripling of twenty . On his return from Ireland he wrote , " I arrived ...
... mean an increase of fortune , and the future was as hard a problem to the popular author , now in the prime of life and the fulness of powers , as to the ambitious stripling of twenty . On his return from Ireland he wrote , " I arrived ...
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