A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, المجلد 1C. Knight and Company, 1837 |
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Aberdeenshire acres agriculture Annual value antè arable Average rent barley basalt beds boroughs breed Bristol Channel Britain canal cattle chalk Channel Cheshire clay climate coal coast considerable contains Cornwall county in 1831 crops cultivated dairy Derbyshire district divided east eastern elevation England estates estimated extensive fallow farms feet fertile Forest former Frith harbour hills horses husbandry improved inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish Sea island Isle Kent Lancashire latter leases limestone Lincolnshire loam Loch London manufacture marsh meadow members to parliament miles mountains navigable nearly north-east northern Northumberland oats occupiers oolite parishes partly pasture places plough Population of county Principal towns produce property in 1815 quantity real property rent of land rocks sandstone Scotland sheep shire side soil southern species square miles Staffordshire strata supposed surface Survey tenants Thames tillage towns and population tracts turnips vale value of real western wheat wool Yorkshire
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 125 - from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ;" that is, from the greatest to the least.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 206 - Cambridgeshire ; on the east, by Essex ; on the south, by Middlesex ; and on the west, by Bucks and Bedford.