Travels, During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity, of the Kingdom of FranceJ. Rackham, 1792 - 566 pages |
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... , or caught flying as they are whirled through Europe in post - chaises . A man who is not practically acquainted with agriculture , knows not how to make thofe A 2 : those inquiries ; he scarcely knows how to discriminate PREFACE .
... , or caught flying as they are whirled through Europe in post - chaises . A man who is not practically acquainted with agriculture , knows not how to make thofe A 2 : those inquiries ; he scarcely knows how to discriminate PREFACE .
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... thofe of fortune . There were churchmen , two or three officers , and fome others , better dressed than I should have looked for , for in Italy people are obliged to be economical . At Dollo , the half way place , I formed , for dinner ...
... thofe of fortune . There were churchmen , two or three officers , and fome others , better dressed than I should have looked for , for in Italy people are obliged to be economical . At Dollo , the half way place , I formed , for dinner ...
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abſolutely acre agriculture almoſt alſo arable arpent Aſſembly becauſe beſt Bretagne buſhels buſineſs cauſe circumſtance common confiderable conſequence conſtitution conſumption converſation corn courſe crops cultivated diſtrict diviſion eaſe England Engliſh eſtabliſhed eſtate expence fame farm farmer filk firſt foil fome France French fuch Garonne horſes houſe husbandry immenſe incloſed increaſe induſtry intereſting itſelf juſt kingdom land Languedoc laſt leaſt leſs maiz manufactures meaſure miferable miles Monf moſt mountains muſt myſelf neceſſary obſerved Paris paſs paſſed perſon pleaſing pleaſure preſent produce province queſtion raiſed reaſon rent reſpect reſt reſult riſe ſame ſay ſcene ſecond ſecure ſee ſeems ſeen ſells ſeptiers ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſheep ſhew ſhould Signore ſituation ſmall ſociety Sologne ſome ſomething ſpeak ſpecies ſpread ſpring ſtate ſtep ſtock ſtreets ſubject ſuch ſufficient ſupport ſuppoſe ſyſtem table d'hôte taxes theſe thing thoſe town uſe vale vaſt vines waſte wheat whoſe wool
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Page 65 - ... he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate; from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on...
Page 65 - In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery : you write two or three words on a paper ; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment ; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate : from which it appears...
Page 401 - Where is the little farmer to be found who will cover his whole farm with marl at the rate of 100...
Page 37 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 534 - It is impossible to justify the excesses of the people on their taking up arms ; they were certainly guilty of cruelties ; it is idle to deny the facts, for they have been proved too clearly to admit of a doubt. But is it really the people to •whom we are to impute the whole ? — Or to their oppressors who had kept them so long in a state of bondage ? He who chooses to be served by slaves...
Page 63 - ... consistent with the spirit of the tenth century, but not with that of the eighteenth. What a noble farm would the fourth of this income establish ! what turnips, what cabbages, what potatoes, what clover, what sheep, what wool ! — Are not these things better than a fat ecclesiastic ? If an active English farmer was mounted behind this abbot, I think he would do more good to France with half the income than half the abbots of the kingdom with the whole of theirs.
Page 528 - ... room (a French cabinet is never a large one), he could not help seeing a paper lying on the table, written in a large legible hand, and containing a list of the prisoners in the Bastile, in which the first name was Gordon. When the minister entered, lord Albemarle apologized for his involuntarily remarking the paper ; the other replied, that it was not of the least consequence, for they made no secret of the names.
Page 120 - ... an union between all the other orders of the state, with the parliaments, army, and a great body even of the people, who must disapprove of all extremities ; and when to this is added the possibility of involving the kingdom in a civil war, now so familiarly talked of, that it is upon the lips...
Page 10 - ... are well known to be a capital collection. The whole palace, except the chapel, seems to be open to all the world; we pushed through an amazing crowd of all sorts of people to see the procession, many of them not very well dressed, whence it appears that no questions are asked. But the officers at the door of the apartment in which the king dined made a distinction, and would not permit all to enter promiscuously.
Page 35 - I found it impossible to make them break their inflexible silence with more than a monosyllable, and the whole company sat more like an assembly of tongue-tied quakers than the mixed company of a people famous for loquacity.