A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volume 1C. Knight and Company, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... means necessary to throw light on some of the most interesting departments of statistical inquiry . Latterly , indeed , the public attention has been , in some degree , awakened to the state of this long - neglected department of ...
... means necessary to throw light on some of the most interesting departments of statistical inquiry . Latterly , indeed , the public attention has been , in some degree , awakened to the state of this long - neglected department of ...
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... means of embankments . After this had been effected , the quantity of refluent water being materially diminished , the channels of the rivers , not being sufficiently scoured , gradually filled up ; and the course of the land water ...
... means of embankments . After this had been effected , the quantity of refluent water being materially diminished , the channels of the rivers , not being sufficiently scoured , gradually filled up ; and the course of the land water ...
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... means of pumps wrought mostly by windmills , but now , in a few instances , by steam - engines . Owing to the porousness of the soil , the water is always oozing , or soaking , as it is called , from the higher levels ; though this has ...
... means of pumps wrought mostly by windmills , but now , in a few instances , by steam - engines . Owing to the porousness of the soil , the water is always oozing , or soaking , as it is called , from the higher levels ; though this has ...
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... means of folding or otherwise , to keep up their fertility . Marlborough Downs , an extensive tract adjoining Salisbury Plain on the north - east , is , in all respects similar to the latter , except that its surface is more uneven ...
... means of folding or otherwise , to keep up their fertility . Marlborough Downs , an extensive tract adjoining Salisbury Plain on the north - east , is , in all respects similar to the latter , except that its surface is more uneven ...
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... means of several locks , constructed at different periods , of which the first is at Teddington , 18 miles above London Bridge ; this , consequently , is the limit to which the tide flows . The low water surface of the river from Ted ...
... means of several locks , constructed at different periods , of which the first is at Teddington , 18 miles above London Bridge ; this , consequently , is the limit to which the tide flows . The low water surface of the river from Ted ...
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Page 585 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Page 617 - The turtle to her make 96 hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs; The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; The fishes flete with new repaired scale; The adder all her.
Page 480 - Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucester, Hants, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Kent, Lancaster, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, Westmoreland, Wilts, Worcester, and York.
Page 585 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be, perhaps, double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress...
Page 558 - ... extraordinary commission from heaven, or terrify and abuse the people with false denunciations of judgments. These, as tending to subvert all religion by bringing it into ridicule and contempt, are punishable by the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment, and infamous corporal punishment. (>) VIII. Simony, or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for gift or reward...
Page 125 - from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ;" that is, from the greatest to the least.
Page 448 - ... guineas for the use of a single ram for a single season ? who will send across the kingdom to distant provinces for new implements, and for men to use them...
Page 585 - There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others, who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.
Page 200 - They do nearly all their work themselves ; ahd arc passionately fond of buying a bit of land. Though I have said they are happy, yet I should note that it, was remarked to me, that the little proprietors work like Negroes, and do not live so well as the inhabitants of the poor-house ; but all is made amends for by possessing land.
Page 206 - Cambridgeshire ; on the east, by Essex ; on the south, by Middlesex ; and on the west, by Bucks and Bedford.