 In the year 1685 , the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded the value of all the other fruits of human industry. Yet agriculture was in what would now be considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not...  Fen sketches - Page 135by John Algernon Clarke - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...perhaps be re-assured when they have considered the increase of the public resources. In the year 1685, the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...said scarcely to have exceeded £10,000 a year. " It now exceeds £ 10,000 a day." "In the year 1685, the value of the produce of the soil, far exceeded...state." The arable and pasture lands were not supposed to " amount to much more than half the area of the kingdom. The remainder was believed to consist of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 666 pages
...the third chapter of his History, says about hedges may be worth quoting : — f^ " In the year 1085. the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude :and imperfect state. The arable land and ipasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...perhaps be reassured when they have considered the increase of the public resources. In the year 1685 , the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
...perhaps be reassured when they have considered the increase of the public resources. In the year 1685 the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...perhaps be reassured when they have considered the increase of the public resources. In the year 1685 the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...perhaps be reassured when they have considered the increase of the public resources. In the year 1685, the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1862 - 698 pages
...the close of the seventeenth century," says the historian, " agriculture in Great Britain was in a rude and imperfect state. The arable and pasture lands were not supposed to amount to more than, half the area of the kingdom. The remainder was believed to consist of moor,... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 380 pages
...forresters. Little more than a century and a half ago, this was most strikingly the case. " In the year 1685, the value of the produce of the soil far exceeded...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age, to amount... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...the year 1685, the value of the produce of the soil far * Sec the Travels of the Grand Duke Cosmo. exceeded the value of all the other fruits of human...considered as a very rude and imperfect state. The arable land and pasture land were not supposed by the best political arithmeticians of that age to amount... | |
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