Arthur Young's Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789G. Bell and sons, 1909 - 366 pages |
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Page xxvii
... interesting fact recorded is the item of expenditure . The first journey , lasting just upon six months , cost £ 118 15s . 2d . The second journey , of eighty - eight days , cost just £ 61 , or at the rate of fourteen shillings a day ...
... interesting fact recorded is the item of expenditure . The first journey , lasting just upon six months , cost £ 118 15s . 2d . The second journey , of eighty - eight days , cost just £ 61 , or at the rate of fourteen shillings a day ...
Page xxxii
... interesting reminiscences he speaks of the great foppery prevailing in dress - a weakness from which he was not himself exempt , as the vivacious Fanny Burney will tell us by - and - by . His extraordinary - we are al- most tempted to ...
... interesting reminiscences he speaks of the great foppery prevailing in dress - a weakness from which he was not himself exempt , as the vivacious Fanny Burney will tell us by - and - by . His extraordinary - we are al- most tempted to ...
Page xxxiii
... interesting at they are , err on the side of redundancy and epexegesis . We wholly miss the vivacity , terseness , and vigour of the French Travels . At twenty - four he married Miss Martha Allen , of Lynn , sister to Fanny Burney's ...
... interesting at they are , err on the side of redundancy and epexegesis . We wholly miss the vivacity , terseness , and vigour of the French Travels . At twenty - four he married Miss Martha Allen , of Lynn , sister to Fanny Burney's ...
Page xl
... interesting fact that these French journeys exactly realized a plan of travel laid down in an early work . If we turn to the last chapter of that well - written and charac- teristic little book , " The Farmer's Letters to the People of ...
... interesting fact that these French journeys exactly realized a plan of travel laid down in an early work . If we turn to the last chapter of that well - written and charac- teristic little book , " The Farmer's Letters to the People of ...
Page xliv
... interesting to be passed by . The pair had corresponded on agriculture and had met before . Burke was naturally delighted with Arthur Young's recantation , " The Example of France . " He had not seen , he wrote , anything in this ...
... interesting to be passed by . The pair had corresponded on agriculture and had met before . Burke was naturally delighted with Arthur Young's recantation , " The Example of France . " He had not seen , he wrote , anything in this ...
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