Travels in France: During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789George Bell and Sons, 1889 - 366 pages |
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Page vii
... poor and the people miserable . As all readers of Georges Sand know well , it is a land of heaths and wastes , but the extent of uncultivated tracts is being reduced year by year . So rapid is the progress that the great novelist ...
... poor and the people miserable . As all readers of Georges Sand know well , it is a land of heaths and wastes , but the extent of uncultivated tracts is being reduced year by year . So rapid is the progress that the great novelist ...
Page viii
... poor , and ugly country . It seems to want communication , de- mand and activity of all kinds . " The ancient province of Poitou comprises La Vendée ; but if we turn to the three care- fully drawn maps appended to the original edition ...
... poor , and ugly country . It seems to want communication , de- mand and activity of all kinds . " The ancient province of Poitou comprises La Vendée ; but if we turn to the three care- fully drawn maps appended to the original edition ...
Page xviii
... poor , provided no members of their own family are able to undertake the duty . The hatefulness of dependence and the strong in- ducements to thrift held out by secure possession of the land , render these public burdens comparatively ...
... poor , provided no members of their own family are able to undertake the duty . The hatefulness of dependence and the strong in- ducements to thrift held out by secure possession of the land , render these public burdens comparatively ...
Page xx
... poor expressed without reserve in English hearing . A system of repression only to be compared to the Russian rule in Poland , and wholesale immigration of born Prussians , is gradually forcing a hated nationality upon this population ...
... poor expressed without reserve in English hearing . A system of repression only to be compared to the Russian rule in Poland , and wholesale immigration of born Prussians , is gradually forcing a hated nationality upon this population ...
Page xxii
... poor and the land minutely subdivided in the Jura , yet the condition of the peasant is now one of comparative ease and entire independence . Both morally and intellectually these mountaineers rank high among the rural population of ...
... poor and the land minutely subdivided in the Jura , yet the condition of the peasant is now one of comparative ease and entire independence . Both morally and intellectually these mountaineers rank high among the rural population of ...
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