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Página 54 - France ; the efforts of industry the most vigorous ; the animation the most lively. An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause ; the enjoyment of property must have done it. 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.
Página 53 - I were a French minister they should have it. They would soon turn all the deserts around them into gardens. Such a knot of active husbandmen, who turn their rocks into scenes of fertility, because I suppose their own, would do the same by the wastes, if animated by the same omnipotent principle.
Página 370 - The imprint of Bohn's Standard Library is a guaranty of good editing. ' Critic (NY) ' This new and attractive form in which the volumes of Bohn's Standard Library are being issued is not meant to hide either indifference in the selection of books included in this well-known series, or carelessness in the editing.
Página 370 - The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.' — EMERSON. 'An important body of cheap literature, for which every living worker in this country who draws strength from the past has reason to be grateful.
Página 96 - ... 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 at any distance : within and without a besieged town, for instance ; or for a purpose much more worthy, and a thousand times more harmless, between...
Página 315 - The enrolments for the militia, which the cahiers call an injustice without example, were another dreadful scourge on the peasantry; and as married men were exempted from it, occasioned in some degree that mischievous population, which brought beings into the world, in order for little else than to be starved. The...
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| Título | Travels in France Bohn's standard library Half title; Bohn's standard library |
| Autor | Arthur Young |
| Colaborador | Matilda Betham-Edwards |
| Edición | 4 |
| Editor | G. Bell and sons, 1892 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 26 Mar 2008 |
| Largo | 366 páginas |
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